It's not an exaggeration to say what would happen if that bug was successfully abused, exaggeration would be saying that Bitcoin is now broken because of that bug, which is of course not the case. I've read the whole article and I don't see any bad journalism, aside from EOS shilling in the end - in fact this is a much better article than the crap that comes from coinidol that gets posted on this board every day. This article simply provided a summary for Luke Dashjr's report and explained the deal with listening and non-listening nodes, there's no FUD or doom in there.
Miners have had enough time to exploit the bug but never had the incentive to do so. You can pull off an exploit once, but the consequences of that are that you trash your reputation as miner, and people will shift their hashrate to other pools, and then not to mention the effect on the market itself.
It's also an exaggeration at this point in time because the actual threat that was a threat no longer is. News outlets don't want to include that part because it makes the article itself pretty useless. The average person sees 60% as in the majority is still vulnerable, while the reality is much different. That generates clicks.
Lukedashjr often posts things without actually nuancing them.
