Check out this website for a list of every time Bitcoin has been declared dead. Given the open-source ethos of the cryptocurrency project, I believe it will take plenty of time for these technologies to reach a point of mass adoption...if they ever do. I totally agree that journalists like the author of the article you shared are simply adding to the noise and confusion. Anyone who repeatedly uses the term "blockchain technology" comes across as not particularly well read in the space. If that author actually did his research he would not that plenty of development has taken place in the cryptocurrency world: decentralized finance, privacy coins, and on-chain governance have seen advances in the past year. I'm particularly bullish on privacy coins.