If that were the attitude the article was taking, about getting and retaining the necessary respect to do effective instruction, I think it would land better, but, at least to me, it feels much more like scolding someone for not keeping their house immaculately clean for guests and doing so in such a way that creates the illusion that it is effortless and no trouble at all. I think I'm especially irked by "make your bookshelf all appropriately scholarly, without the children's books or the trashy romance novels" advice, because people keep the books they need for work at work, and nobody should have to haul their reference material home for the benefit of a zoom background.

Maybe I am overreacting to something that's not there, but the whole thing feels very condescending, and that gets in the way of any useful advice that might be offered.