Total crap ... RCV can easily be scammed and their Alaska example proves it. IE: if the D’s run a second R candidate the vote will be split.
Think of how we got stuck with Bill ‘Peyronie’ Clinton ... Perot split the R vote. There were several rumors around that suggested that the DNC footed Perot’s campaign bills. True or not a similar tactic can be used to affect a RCV election.
As has already been said, if one needs a 9,000+ word article to explain to everyday folks how their vote probably didn’t go to who they wanted to vote for, that system is corrupt from the get-go.
Many of the Perot voters I knew were Democrats who didn't like Clinton or who just wanted to shake up the system. When I went through the numbers it would have taken 2/3 of the Perot voters to vote for Bush to change the election.