As the article is denoted as a comment, it is not its aim to be unbiased journalism.

In contrast to usual articles, comments usually elaborate on the opinion of the jounalist.

This reminds me on the niche tool in Mathematica I’ve been using, which has four different assignment oparators for that purpose.

<= is already no mathematical operator, but a comparison operator. Thus there is no need to define e.g. <== for comparing two values.