We're probably going to see some declination of the parasitic inheritance in the next parts, none-the-less this article has been a good read. You don't find a lot of real JS article these days.
The point I'd make about it here, though, which is generically reflected in today's part 2 article, is that it's a fine pattern in and of itself, but the reason I think it's a "distraction" is that it actually moves away from the [[Prototype]] chain entirely.
You can use it as a bespoke pattern for combining two objects, but it's a mistake/confusion to think this has anything to do with JS's underlying delegation mechanism. The same point is made about mixins, and polymorphism (which also requires implicit mixins).