Please re-read the article, hint: a list of apps I created and maintained in spare time, all with GUI test automation, so that I can do daily-production releases. Think about the "Hard" and "Benefits". I do lower test automation too, but their benefits are no way compared to UI test automation. Most of IT professionals never witnessed real test automation, so their view is 'baised'. The main idea of this article: accept a real automated functional tester accepts 'must do UI test automation' first (as stated in World's Quality Report), then can proactively learn to do it properly. That way, UI test automation is not that hard. My daughter's test automation skill level is better than 95% of 'senior automated testers', at the age of 12.

Check out An IT Graduate’s frustration with a Fake ‘Senior Test Automation Engineer’, https://zhiminzhan.medium.com/an-it-graduates-frustration-with-a-fake-senior-test-automation-engineer-8b0075954394