Not necessarily. The example VOX article[1] had Trump's tweets embedded in the article, which are now hidden. Trump didn't delete those tweets. He was banned.
>There are many more cases of deletions than banned ones, let's not think of the exception as the rule
But that isn't the exception. Banned users tend to be the ones that have some level of public interest, as evidenced by the VOX quote.
>And the blog author still has the text as well
That's right and maybe in some way this new policy accidentally leads to good things, in that it may incentive sites that embed Twitter's content on their page, to simply bypass that.
And the blog author still has the text as well