Fargate's purpose was never to magically make container orchestration go away, though - it's just a managed compute layer you plug into via the other orchestration frameworks (ECS or EKS). Really the apples-to-apples comparison should be DigitalOcean's managed Kubernetes with EKS (and there are a lot of valid points to raise there, to be sure).

The real value-add of Fargate is pay-for-what-you-use, when your task queue is idle and your bill drops to zero with no extra orchestration (something that the article seemingly completely missed).