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Clickbait title (“stranglehold”, really?), and also really bad advice.

Terminal can be scary, but “open terminal from Applications/Utilities” and typing “rm ~/.zsh” is objectively easier. Also that’s not even the best solution, just a far better way to do this solution.

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Pythons and anacondas are snakes which catch and kill their prey by strangling them and inducing cardiac arrest. It’s a pun.

Come on, putting “macOS” and “stranglehold” in a title is not merely a (bad) pun; it plays into article titles which adhere to common complaints, and topical complaints about macOS/Apple specifically, in a clickbaity way.

It sounds like they want to be able to restore it too. And the Terminal is harder to use than a graphical step by step guide.

This guide requires holding down arcane secret key combination, this is not remotely normal way to do anything, and prevents people from learning basic system commands every programmer needs to know.

Also, “mv ~/.zsh ~/zsh-anaconda”.

His audience is not programmers.

It quite literally is for students learning Python.

He is an economics professor, not a CS professor. His students may be going into jobs that require programming, but that doesn’t mean they are “programmers” or that the purpose of the class is to teach Python.

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