I've been on this site since 2009 and never posted anything or commented on anything (I am just lurking and reading the insightful posts and comments always), but let me make this my first comment here, 16 years later after the creation of this account: Thank you to the original author (although he may never read this) for the long, insightful and well-documented article. Love all the footnotes too.

EDIT: Thank you to OP (although not the original creator of the blog post) for bringing this article to our attention.