They acknowledge “grad unemployment is on the rise” and their explanation is we are “in an economic downturn”. Meanwhile stock market is at all-time highs.

Whoever wrote this article is likely also high, or at least delusional.

The last graph of stack overflow seems more like just wanting to paste in a good graph, rather than a useful one for the topic. The downfall of SO is well earned and meaningful as a topic (in a different article).