I take that article with a grain of salt. From the pictures, the lack of any designations in the article and the fact that it is probably from 4WD Mag I would say they are only speaking of driving on fairly deep snow and down back roads/trails as opposed to normal people heading down regular roads that are just getting snow.
This article isn't comparing apples to apples as far as I am concerned. When I was posting previously I was referring to on-road snow conditions.
I do agree with everything except point 9 in the article though when considering an all off-road/logging trail drive. 9 basically makes no point other than it is hard to put chains on after you are stuck. Had the chains been on at the beginning....
And point 1 they don't necessarily discount the skinny tires. But they do essentially say it doesn't apply in off-road deep snow driving if the snow is deeper than the vehicle clearance is high.