Was just quoting the author. But also it appears that Apple disagrees with you, since they seem to have turned off sub pixel AA five years ago in macOS Mojave. See [1]. Indeed when I screen-captured and scaled up the non-western script in the article, there was no sub pixel AA on my Mac.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/8wpk18/macos_mojave_...