I had the same feeling when reading the article. Then I noticed the other two tales on the site: about nofollow and captchas both being bad for the web. That's when I knew for sure this was written by a spammer.
My definition of spammer might be a bit broad. I'm just really tired of the crap pages in a lot of Google search result so I don't have any sympathy for the people complaining when their site with nothing other than ads and SEO tricks got booted from Google Search.
