I feel your pain. I have the same problem with people who like tool chains and design patterns that create cargo cult programmers with tonnes of baggage
While I applaud the passion in this article the issue is so old that people just roll their eyes and move on. We the people who actually use the language just have to keep chugging.
This is under the assumption that anything electronic that is created by a country can be remotely bricked by it's creator. This logic doesn't make sense. Everyone would be doing it with everything; cellphones, tanks, tvs, airplanes, microwaves. The list of things you could theoretically brick is endless.
No code fails because its promises "coding" like features. I think it would be more successful if it did not try to be a gateway drug into programming. Its best if it just does its own thing.