Agreed, I even went into this article after reading your comment thinking "Hmm, I'll just scroll through quickly and block all of the images then take my time reading without the distractions"...I had to give up after 5 or 6, didn't even bother reading the article.
EDIT: Saw the Safari reader view comment below and ended up using Edge's reading view for this. That makes it tolerable but I really shouldn't have to do this.
It may not be a bad idea to report this user via GitHub's "block or report" feature when viewing that account: https://github.com/dmcahelper
That type of behavior can only be bad for open source software. Threats like "to minimize file and repository impacts" are going to push more folks toward private repositories if they don't understand that it's not an actual authority pressing them into making changes on a given platform.
He's not making an argument for the elimination of ads, bloat comes in so many different forms. Loading entire libraries to solve trivial tasks, dragging in massive images where they don't belong, etc.
EDIT: Saw the Safari reader view comment below and ended up using Edge's reading view for this. That makes it tolerable but I really shouldn't have to do this.