The second para of the article addresses this, as does the summary at the bottom. Maybe read the article and respond if your concerns about this particular article are still valid? Maybe it applies to the general "X is a code smell" article.
> Smells don’t necessarily indicate actual issues, just patterns that are likely to be used incorrectly and thus warrants extra care.
> Smells don’t necessarily indicate actual issues, just patterns that are likely to be used incorrectly and thus warrants extra care.