The author of the comment is, however, an expert in the field the author of the article is trying to (unsuccessfully) reason about.

If that were the case, surely you would have presented counterarguments instead of just attacking the author?

OpenAI has been releasing industry leading capabilities at a pretty predictable clip. Their current top reasoning model outperforms the competition by a mile. From this I conclude, at a minimum, that they aren't "out of ideas" and the article is just inane clickbait.