It is actually the article itself that is steering the discussion in this direction by putting the two technologies right against each other in another misguided attempt to put a spin on the story ...
Yes, the MacRumors editors sure have their part to play in this rivality that exists only in the minds of some less informed Apple users. Even Intel's own staff is saying both technologies are complementary rather than competitors but yet, the Mac community keeps trying to pit them as rivals.
That said. The majority of people don't care about the underlying technology, they compare what they can do with a device or what marketing promised them they could do. In the case of Thunderbolt it was ultrafast external disks, external graphic card among others. Little to none has materialized so far .. thus the grudge.
Well, that's not quite true. We have had quite a few DAS enclosures that support TB that have been released. Promise, Drobo, LaCie and others have released their ThunderBolt products.
What is missing is the "consumer, should just be USB" devices that everyone thinks are coming for Thunderbolt. Of course those are missing, they are just not cost-efficient uses of Thunderbolt.