it does seem like the audience the article is explicitly targeted for is an edge case. people who understand enough to be writing an exploit but are somehow unaware of their target architecture works.

but i guess the real target audience is probably people that are just starting out on CTFs and just trying to string stuff together without a proper understanding of the fundamentals. everyone has to start somewhere and i guess if people are just using packers and tools to generate exploit code then its quite easy to use the wrong flags and not know what is going on.