I did read it. (I generally try to read all the articles for which I provide links before I post them.)
This does not in any way negate the fact that we live in a "clown world" culture which inculcates entirely unnecessary alarm and confusion in parents when their sons evince a perfectly natural interest in things that boys have always tended to be interested in - all in the name of deliberately and intentionally "blurring gender lines" as an explicitly stated goal (just as was expressed in the article's subheading).
That this particular story has a "happy ending" (or at least a "not entirely batshit insane" one) is gratifying (or at least relieving) - but how many of the increasing number of others like it do not? And regardless of any particular positive outcomes, a world in which dismay and consternation is the default reaction to little boys being curious about and interested in machines is not a healthy place to be (especially not in a world that relies as heavily as ours does upon those machines).
