To be fair I skimmed the article and I don't see the: "we let them sentiment in it" ... I think that may be a bit of editorial liberty.

The articles does seem to empathize with us:

Advice for consumers for much of the past year has boiled down to either trying to cut back on expenses, or increasing income, but Stanford says it's misleading to put the onus on consumers to solve inflation, since they're the ones bearing the disproportionate burden of it.