This is just a load of excuses they’re using to push always online DRM, testing the waters on what the consumers are okay with and it’s stupid.
Hard drives are cheap, have less issues than internet based DRM. Also, if they just used sensible compression/video formats you can make it look great and not take up 4TB for…

You’re right. They DON’T have people write the stories. These aren’t writers, they’re bloggers. They take people’s ideas and comprise them into half as*ed articles usually with a heavy bias attached.