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I'll admit I didn't read these articles. However, all of these reek of:

Claim! Thing good!

Wait! Thing has downsides!

It's not thorough comparison, it's just showing that everything in life has tradeoffs, which is obvious.

That's not what this is, and if you'd bothered to look for more than a second, you'd seen that too. All the claims listed are very concrete claims that are possible to falsify, unlike "Thing good!", and the research (which, admittedly isn't directly linked, so it might be hard to find what research they're referring to) shows that this is either not true, or that the research is inconclusive. It is important not to take these statements for granted if they cannot be shown to be true; that's simply cargo-culting.

Not reading things is an excellent way to establish for yourself the tautological obviousness of everything.

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