The premise should have been that junk DNA was long misunderstood, not long ignored. If junk DNA was being ignored how could it have been studied to this conclusion?
It does, however, further trivialize the whole "Baramin" concept.
It was ignored precisely because it was misunderstood. Plenty of evos have admitted this in print, one even going so far as to declare it one of the biggest blunders in the entire history of science, so this news really shouldn’t be all that controversial.