The story is focused on GDP growth and to a lesser extent productivity growth. These are important things in their own right and numerous similar articles have documented the US outperformance particularly over the last 5-15 years.

But the story does acknowledge this shortcoming, and that part is pretty stark:

"For all its economic power, the US has the largest income inequality in the G7, coupled with the lowest life expectancy and the highest housing costs, according to the OECD. Market competition is limited and millions of workers endure unstable employment conditions. "