Read this guy's articles and the overwhelming impression I got was of how happy he was with his narrow viewpoint......I felt I had to wipe the smug off the page to finish the read.
Its kind of funny, here in Australia we simply don't use these descriptions......people who use their 4WDs (and there are LOTS who never see a dirt road) modify their vehicles as they see fit, then do anything they want. Rock crawling, per se, isn't a huge thing here, but we like our fire trails for sure.
Touring is a big thing with offroaders here.....and when we go outback, it can be weeks of hard, rutted and corregated dirt roads, flooded river crossings and miles of red clay mud that goes on forever......and you can be many days drive from help, let alone trying to walk out, so we carry what we need including lots of spare fuel and multiple spare tyres.....thats just how it is here.
But the same guy, with all that heavy stuff removed, is still likely to be out on a Sunday, climbing around the hills through the bush on some tight, rough little fire trail.
That author needs to relax, and acknowledge that it doesn't matter what people like, everyone likes being "out there, someplace", and thats good enough.