Ya, me too. I'd even go further and say that critical comment itself well illustrates a different kind of dementia that Western culture (at least) increasingly exhibits: an inability to differentiate between one's perception &/or heuristic predictions, and reality.

Specifically, the "premise of the article" being "I invested 15-20 hours reading this book and, boohoo, I’m not a subject matter expert on the book’s topic" is nowhere to be found in the article, at least by my reading. Or maybe it is actually there and I missed it?