No, not clickbait. Clickbait is something disingenuous. This article chronicles what I lived through. It is entirely accurate.

"And disparaging X to sell Y also rises some ethical questions of its own"

By that logic, Scrum is unethical since they promoted Scrum as an alternative to waterfall.

Also, I am not selling anything. Agile 2 is free; and BTW I did not create Agile 2 - it was created by 15 people.