These articles invariably end in "does not follow" fallacies.

In this case, he gets his accounts hacked, and his advice is "don't use any cloud-hosted email." Ok, but what evidence have you presented that shows that self-hosted email is any more secure? At least, a set of professionals were able to restore your account -- I doubt that would have happened if you had been hosting your own email server.

I have to agree. There is no evidence of what particular attack vectors lead to this exploit. His conclusion are unsubstantiated blanket suggestions.