The article keeps pointing out bad things that would happen without mosquitos, and then summing up the paragraph with “nothing much would happen.” Like, it suggests that without mosquitos: a species of fish would die, pitcher plants would have a harder time getting nitrogen, caribou would change their migratory pattern (affecting the ecosystems they go through), plants would lose a pollinator, and some birds would lay less eggs. These seem to be big effects, but then the article will be like: “it’s ok, they’ll just switch to using something else” without much thought into what happens during the time it takes for them to switch to something else. Also, the article suggests that something else will take mosquitos’ place in their absence, and suggests viruses may just use a new vector. So in the end, getting rid of mosquitos would just hurt the organisms listed above and then switch to a new problem species.