[JdeBP]

Maybe, but notice that almost all of the article, and its followup posted today, is about the speed of starting a shell not of a terminal emulator window. So if you use interactive sub-shells, anything from shelling out of a vi clone or mailx, through :terminal in NeoVIM, to running tmux/screen or script, then the concerns are relevant.

That said, it is almost totally about the Z shell. So you might still qualify as 'weird' in this case on the alternative grounds of not using the Z shell. (-: