Space telescopes transformed our ability to understand the universe

True, they did but the article is all about visible and IR astronomy. The next generation of gigantic ground based telescopes, their colossal instruments, and next-gen adaptive optics are mounting a serious challenge. Consider the ELT's initial suite instruments: https://elt.eso.org/instrument/ and the science goals from exoplanet spectroscopy to cosmology from the vis through mid-IR (yes, I know about atmospheric window limitations.) If Giant Magellan and/or Thirty Meter get built, they'd likely have similar objectives.

Meanwhile, there is no way to do X-ray or gamma ray astronomy from the ground. Some mention of Swift, XMM-Newton, Chandra, Compton, or Fermi would have been nice.