This article seems to romanticize the ride's creators. Why? They built a ride that injured and killed from their own intentional neglect. The men should be regarded as murderers.
From Texas. I feel that the article is trying to describe a Texan perspective of this disaster, reconciling the reality of the criminal negligence and death with the very heavy nostalgia and romance most Texans have for the New Braunfels park, pretty much synonymous with childhood for many of us.
And they're being charged as murderers. I wouldn't say they're being romanticized, per se, but reality is seldom black-and-white enough to paint someone one-dimensionally as a monster and still be telling the truth. Seldom does a baby come out the womb and people go, "What a monster, he is going to kill someone someday."