A hammer is a bad screwdriver. That doesn't make a hammer bad.

I'm not sure what you mean exactly, but it seems that you've interpreted my interpretation of the words in the article as being isolated from the context of the article, which it isn't.

I didn't think I needed to so comprehensively elaborate on such a simple point, but for the avoidance of doubt: the article implies the word is bad for the purposes of informative and accurate journalism.

We don’t use the bare word hammer around here.

You could probably use a scaling or brick hammer as a flat bladed screwdriver in a pinch.

If you’re talking about sledges, well yeah, but that’s a ridiculous strawman (straw ungendered humanoid? Is there an acceptable replacement word yet?)