That article is completely accurate, I see pretty much everybody save their documents on the desktop but if I were to make them find it in the file explorer they wouldn’t have a clue where it is. With macbook users they just use the search feature and probably haven’t seen a directory in all their lives.
The people at my school call all laptops “chromebooks” or “macbooks” and only do their stuff using the Google web apps (docs, sheets, slides, forms, etc). As a degoogled and pretty savvy individual it kind of hurts my soul as I’m over here using stuff like libreoffice on my Linux machine.