Greatly diminish, really? For a typo that may well have been computer generated?
As a graduate of JHU, I admire your devotion to typographical purity and the correct spelling of my alma mater, but the points he makes in the article stand on their own -- with or without the final s
“For a typo that may well have been computer generated?”
The first draft may include a computer-generated (autocorrect) error. Then ... you PROOFREAD and fix errors.