The question is whether LWN's article reduces or exacerbates the confusion you're referring to. With the greatest respect, I actually think the latter is the case because you don't say affirmatively that Bionic isn't infringing.
The easy fix argument now made by LWN and previously made by @bkuhn flies (as I explained in my reply to him) in the face of everything that's known in the world of commercial software development about the potential impact (even in counterintuitive areas) of even the smallest change to a large codebase.