If you're going to claim your article is about the "Best Progression Route," the least you can do is to lay out some of those progression routes in a list or table. Not doing that is, in my opinion, just lazy.
Hell, no. In fact, I'm getting rid of most of my collection. I'm sick of the way Hasbro/WOTC cares more about profits than it does about its players, or the local game stores that have traditionally been their new player pipeline.