>If the author here had gotten his way, nobody would've seen the video, nobody would've been outraged, and nothing would've happened after Ahmed was murdered. Am I supposed to believe that this is an improvement?

Well you need to compare against wasted time on framed narratives, misguided outrage leading to self-defeating policies, etc.

It's like saying poking holes in the ground randomly is a good method for discovering oil because someone lucked out.