If that is really the "entire point" of the article, it's strange that the article doesn't mention it at all. It simply says you should do a thing differently than the way you used to do it, without explanation. It links to the official GitHub blog post, which, it turns out, does mention transitivity -- but again, TFA itself does not even hint that this "entire point" will be addressed in that linked article.

As I see it, TFA's only value is that link to a better article.