The article could do with more substance overall but this is one of my biggest pet peeves and I appreciate it being pointed out. I think the tendency of some tech articles/tutorials to refer to things as simple is part of the faux-friendly-jokey attitude that a lot of tech writing adopts—especially on sites like Medium. That and emojis and gifs. I tend to close an article/tutorial as soon as I see an emoji or a gif.
At the very least, gifs should only play when you click them in an article that I'm actually expected to read. Do other people actually enjoy reading static text with a giant low-resolution flickering image on screen next to it? It's just so distracting to me. Seems like Developer Advocates love to do that sort of thing in blog posts.
If you're looking for substance, the article itself is from a related blog on technology, and there's a book compiling ~100 highlight articles from that. The short list is just that: a short list.
