You can publish different points of view without endorsing them. This piece is a bad, impractical idea, but its gradualism is less bad than court-packing. And you missed the part where it explicitly advances this argument as a reason to persuade people not to vote for Trump. https://twitter.com/JoshuaMZeitz/status/1315287222082506752 …
Less bad only because reducing the size as seats go vacant would not present the issue of a new president abruptly choosing how many of his own appointees he needed to get his way.