But as you see from responses and down votes even raising questions is frowned upon now.

(Racists and other bad-faith actors may have ruined the "can't even raise the question" routine. It's unfortunate -- we're quickly losing the ability to think critically; and you know what the great men have said about the unexamined life.)

There is lots of room for cognitive dissonance here. The article hardly claims that gaming is a universally GoodThing(tm). Rather that it isn't universally a bad one. In my reading, nuance seems to be the very point.