I too don’t want to be that guy potentially defending a joke made in poor taste, but we went this route with the joke intentionally to avoid all of these misinformation problems the internet has.
We could have gone the straight up fake news route with some dumb announcement along the lines of being acquired by the NSA or NordVPN or whatever, but those jokes are ultimately not in good fun, like Zen Browser “announcing” their switch to Chromium 
At the risk of over-explaining the joke, the article covers the benefits of E2EE, and clearly only uses fallacious arguments against it. Every single section contrasts the actual benefits of E2EE with supposed dangers that don’t hold up to logic or scrutiny.
The article is legitimate and a good source of information about E2EE despite the negative tone, so again, yes I think it is valuable to the community at large in its current state. It isn’t clickbait, and it isn’t misinformation: It legitimately describes the “dangers of E2EE” that are commonly argued online, and disagrees with them.
Frankly, I think that being able to parse out meaning and facts from articles regardless of the tone they are written in is an important skill-set.
I strongly feel that we should never be in a mindset where we assume everyone else is dumber than we are. The constant talk of “normies” and other similar terms in the technical community is highly alienating to people.
So far other arguments boil down to “well I totally get the joke, but [xyz person] might not!” which I don’t feel is compelling, it’s just speculation.
Privacy Guides has always been written with the assumption that the reader is able to understand the words in front of them. I don’t think we should change that approach.