I think the author of this piece and other people (even Apple fans) do not realize that this cloth is solely meant for users of Nanotexture display coatings. It’s not a general purpose microfiber cloth, and isn’t marketed as such. It is specifically meant for cleaning the nanotexture displays. It does this extremely well and without damage. Regular microfiber cloths absolutely will damage the nanotexture Studio Display and Pro XDR, by the way. They will leave lint and fibers in the texture and very quickly ruin the image fidelity.
This joke was tired from the start, but the fact that people don’t even consider why it is produced and sold is just mindblowing to me. It’s like if people used a DSLR cleaning kit for their phones and kept sarcastically asking why they were so expensive when a t-shirt works just fine.