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"My point is that this article doesn't reflect reality - just whiners."

I disagree, this article certainly reflects the reality of hundreds of thousands of educated, experienced high-tech unemployed Americans in Silicon Valley and the Seattle area where unemployment is particularly high among professionals. There have been a plethora of articles posted here that have explained it in detail and the reasons for drawing attention to the factors causing it.
Those factors include over a million foreign guest workers here on visas and the half million offshored foreigners that are replacing Americans who are first forced to train their younger, less experienced, foreign replacements.
Other factors are the biased trade policies that allow Communist China to dump products made from slave labor while devaluing the Yuan 40%. The WTO is now making decisions for America regarding trade, and we have a gigantic trade deficit. This has contributed to almost 3 million unemployed in 2 years as manufacturing is closed and/or offshored.

[They are likely to earn more, for instance, which means that replacing their lost salaries can be extremely challenging. They frequently have higher levels of education, causing some firms to dismiss them as overqualified. Finally, they often entered management ranks after years of climbing the corporate ladder, but experience means age, and maturity isn't always valued.]