I don't understand why you think that writing on a very technical subject needs to build you a ladder to climb on as a prerequisite. There is a link to a very high quality talk right at the top of the article for folks who wanted to dive deeper that specifically makes that effort.

I found the article quite good, and if you had genuinely been motivated to engage with the content you could have highlighted the acronym and searched for it. There is a wealth of good info for "CRDTs" that comes up on the first page of Google, Bing or DDG.

Does the acronym actually illuminate what they are or how they function? I submit to you that it probably doesn't.