Yeah totally agreed. I personally have not encountered a club that has bottle service/VIP that doesn’t degrade into the sort of thing described in the article.
There are, of course, plenty of clubs that are entirely oriented around dancing which are great. They tend to be on the less “hot” end of the spectrum (because the term basically means status-building).
When I was talking about ‘normal’ people getting bottle service, I meant people who were there because they liked the DJ and not for all the other stuff.
In my experience, most of the good parties are run by people who love dance music and know how to build a community around it. Most of them have nothing but contempt for high rollers who go to flash money around, even if they cater to them to stay in business.