While it is not unusual, it's not what Macbook Pro has been known for since their transition to Intel CPUs. So it fits some specific use cases, at the expense of every other. And if they did make the hardware faster, all usecases would benefit.

All those people with a different usecase, are right to be annoyed by that. But just as this piece completely lacks unbiased opinion, so does the noise coming from HN (and the tech community in general).