Like most condemnatory articles about the work of Ayn Rand, there's no indication and evidence the writer ever attempted to read the original work himself -- but merely found the 1,200 pages "daunting," and so relied on envious critics to undermine its worthiness.
It's boilerplate "Ayn Rand is not worth the effort to understand, and so read the dismissive articles I've read as all you need to know."
My god, will the mainstream media ever write about something they really know about -- in their authoritative, pretentious AP style?
It's Okay not to understand everything in the world. (That's how one finds out.)
It's not okay to pretend to understand everything in the world.
That's one of the central themes in Atlas Shrugs.