I'm having a difficult time reading this article because of the syntax, I think. So many parentheticals, a little subject verb object never hurt anyone.

For me as a lay-person, the article is disjointed and kinda hard to follow. It's fascinating that all the quotes are emotional responses or about academic politics. Even now, they are suspicious of transformers and are bitter that they were wrong. No one seems happy that their field of research has been on an astonishing rocketship of progress in the last decade.