That just looks like a bullshit justification for having a clickbait title. It's not like this title will make Apple pay any more attention to the issue. All it does is try to elicit pageviews from other people, while simultaneously misleading them (because the title implies it's a problem unique to iPhone 7, and not everybody is going to read the whole article).

Fair. Although I'd presume he was genuinely unaware of the prior art here. A lot about wifi traffic is not what most people assume.

Well, they point out that Android does it too, so clearly they know it's not unique to iPhone 7.