It's not just pop music. This plague has infested metal and it's unbearable.
When I hear a drum machine execute with microsecond level precision, I feel like I want to throw my computer through a window. It is instantaneous revulsion. There isn't a ponderous "gee I wonder if this is real/fake" phase of discovery. It's obviously fake and trash. Immediately. Every time.
Orchestral arrangements done the same way might be the only thing that is worse to my ear.
There are situations where having good timing is important, but you cannot put the entire thing on an atomic clock and call it "art".
I don't really hear the same thing as much in doom, black, or more extreme death variants.
It's possible I don't have the ear for it though, so now I wish the article had posted how it made this type of analysis so I could run some of my albums through it myself.
I very simple way is to throw a track into a DAW and see if the drum hits line up perfectly with the "grid". Most DAW's have a grid background so you can see. If it's perfect for the whole song, then it's definitely quantized to death (pun unintended, though does sound quite kvlt).