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Fair points, all fair points.
I guess what I should have wrote is; "If metering by eye, err on the side of over exposure. Don't go so slow shutter speed that you risk camera shake."
For me it's all about enjoying the process of shooting and in my experience this has been a good approach to shoot freely.
It won't be technically perfect or optimal, but it is fun and I get results I like. Sorry if I have sowed confusion.
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This test is a bit of a dogs dinner. If they’d metered it properly it would give best results at 0 or +1, not +2 like they claim. There are no closeups posted of the scans and they don’t discuss granularity at all. Then their Frontier/Noritsu is doing all the heavy lifting for the colour science.
Imagine you shot all your film at +4 stops after reading this article, lost loads of pictures due to camera shake or shallow depth of field, see your negs are grainy as hell, then realise they actually have no idea what they’re talking about. Have they even heard of a densitometer?