Personally, I don't believe the author's views will ever get much traction.
Many of the comments on the article page are in agreement with us, specifically that rpg's are a hobby and Oren Ashkenazi (the author) should "lighten up Francis".
I recently joined a gaming club and the majority of the gamers are between the ages of mid-teens to mid-thirties. Many of them got introduced to gaming via D&D 3rd or 4th editions and they don't appear to have any concerns with the "problems" that Ashkenazi claims and they are pretty normal, stable human beings despite what Ashkenazi seems to believe.
Ashkenazi seems to me to be reactionary, read his article on the following link
http://mythcreants.com/blog/five-mec...ur-game-worse/
and specifically direct your attention to his point number 1, paragraph 1. His comment about being upset shows that he too likes bashing badguys just as much as the people he targets in the original article who he claims are in danger from these "Five Destructive Myths".
His article seems to me to be driven by the same personal problems/internal issues that I believe Allen Varney suffers in his commentary "Do the Right Thing" were he complained that T2k was a moral vacuum and the game designers should have put an ethical system in place to let players know right and wrong (because apparently in his view, GMs and Players are incapable of knowing right from wrong unless it's forced upon them by the rules).
Varney's views didn't get much long term attention, I don't think that Ashkenazi's will either.