As the article emphasizes, "every technological advance seems to make it harder to work, remember, think and function independently …"
This is exactly what it takes for there to be a positive feedback mechanism for AI to accelerate. Almost like people havng the goal lines moved for them. Which it looks like AI has already done in spite of its notorious shortcomings.
That little quote doesn't only apply to AI, think about how it was as slide rule engineering faded into obscurity. Don't ask me how I know, that would be an even worse wall of text ;)
At one time all bridges, vehicles, aircraft and things like that were designed by people who had prevailed because their mindset was aligned with all the others who excelled at doing almost all the math necessary using only that one common tool, which was common among them because it was a best practice across so many cultures, and a leap above what they were using before. It wan't easy and it required a certain mindset which made engineering possible with such a primitive tool. Two pieces of wood.
The future's come a long way and nobody does this any more, so for the longest there's been no need for engineers to even learn how to use a slide rule, or especially not to use it professionally. Things actually did get easier. Slide rules were no longer necessary for engineering, and from that point the type of brain that could do those kinds of projects using only a slide rule has no longer been a requirement for who can become an engineer. This didn't make them stupid, engineering is still hard, naturally in many other ways.
But with that mindset that made it possible to accomplish so much with such primitive tools now largely absent, could that be why not much more is being accomplished with incredibly more advanced tools after so many decades?