> A poorly thought, as a result, a poorly-written article. Almost everyone wants to automate away the boring parts of their work and life.

mm, the fact that you disagree with the article doesn't make it poorly written.

In my experience no, there are significant limits to how much automation the average person wants in their life. Even if automating something would save time, doing so could be undesirable due to other metrics such as correctness, cost, latency, flexibility, or cognitive load.

> The author created a strawman, but that is not what AI is ("Not everything about our lives can be measured and automated and optimized, and it shouldn’t be.")

In context, what you've quoted there is not the creation of a strawman. In fact you yourself seem to have constructed a strawman out of the article.