To be fair, while this is a single article, if you only look at step 1, 2 and 3, you get a fully published package with only one tool used (flit) and not much extra.
It's the succeeding sections (A, B, C, D, E) that get more advanced, but they're all optional. You should definitely do A, but the rest I'd say it's a lot more opinionated and definitely not needed.
Fair point. I wouldn't recommend this article to someone just starting out with python, though. It's often good to understand generation n-1's way of doing things but not too be married to it.
It's the succeeding sections (A, B, C, D, E) that get more advanced, but they're all optional. You should definitely do A, but the rest I'd say it's a lot more opinionated and definitely not needed.