[daniellehmann]

My reading of the article is not that it promotes "anti-intellectualism" or that it argues to remove all implicit precedence or associativity rules.

I think it actually gives a nuanced answer to your question "where do you draw the line", namely: With a partial precedence scheme, one does not need explicit parentheses for those operator combinations for which the precedence is "clear enough". E.g., in "3 + 2 * 4" precedence is clear to virtually all programmers because it follows standard rules from math ("PEMDAS"), so that is why the precedence table in the post specifies an ordering. However, especially for operators which are less frequently used, or where precedence does differ between languages, one should give parentheses for clarity. I think this is a very sensible argument.

I have certainly made errors because of unclear precedence (e.g., with boolean operators, exponentiation, casting etc.) in the past. And given that there even is a CWE number (https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/783.html) for this kind of error, it seems frequent enough to warrant discussion.