The thing is, I have spent the last year being told that I will VERY SOON be able to use a fork to drink soup, and better than any spoon has ever been able to, and in fact pretty soon spoons will be completely outclassed anyway, and I'M the idiot for doubting this.
Articles like this are still very much needed, to push back against that narrative, regularly, until it DOES become as obvious to everyone as it is to you.
My impression is that the only people telling others they can drink soup with forks are the people who sell the forks.
Even this isn't new. A few years ago we had people who sold knives telling everybody you could use knives to drink soup. And in some cases they weren't even kitchen knives, they were switchblades.
Articles like this are still very much needed, to push back against that narrative, regularly, until it DOES become as obvious to everyone as it is to you.