You are skeptical about something that is explained quite thoroughly in the article. Did you read the article?
Edit: I meant they never claim to outperform SOTA domain-specific approaches. So, I don't know whose claim you are refuting.
Edit: I meant they never claim to outperform SOTA domain-specific approaches. So, I don't know whose claim you are refuting.
I think one should also be sceptical about the current hype train