I'm not rendering a verdict on Milei. I don't know enough about his status quo ante; my priors are that Argentina was an economic basket case before, so I'm not predisposed to defend his predecessors. I have longtime friends from Argentina that absolutely loathe Milei, but they don't read HN so I feel pretty safe being open here.

I'm just commenting on this specific article, in which the author repeatedly makes firsthand contact with the immediate outcomes of Milei's policies, finds them to be generally bad, and concludes that the experience is evidence that things are going well.