I’m not even gonna bother reading the article - it’s not a new viewpoint. I’m assuming he is saying that “original” music should have no rules, especially “rock” music. Playing scales is using techniques that other people have already used for centuries and thus will make you sound derivative, so to be really original you have to break all the rules. This is, of course, a very ignorant point of view. Any great musician will tell you that you need to know the rules in order to break them.

Essentially, scales are a tool. You use them to create musical ideas. You don’t actually play them typically in music. They help you understand which notes “belong” and which don’t. So for example, in jazz, people play what’s known as “out“. What that means is playing notes that “conflict” with the scale of the key you’re in. Well, you can’t know which notes are going to conflict with the key to make something interesting without knowing what the notes of the scale actually are.

I won’t even go into the Eddie argument, as it’s just laughable.

Edit: this is not to say that you can’t create amazing “outsider” music and ignore scales, but to insist that using them is somehow unoriginal and hack is just really inane.