I think this article is generated by AI.
Fake CVE numbers. For example, "critical vulnerability (CVE-2021-34527) revealed that Tor Browser leaked real IPs under certain configurations", but if you look it up, it is about Windows Print Spooler.
I2P sites also look fake.
The debian package is called i2pd, not purplei2p

This is a very good write-up. I have found I2P to be rather slow when I've tried to play with it, and I don't know if that's a misconfiguration on my part, or if I2P would benefit from something like the proof-of-work defenses that Tor has implemented, which have made hidden services work much more reliably. I'm obviously aware that any overlay network is going to be slower than the main internet. But, at least on my system, I found I2P to be even slower than Tor, which I was not expecting.

Also, I would consider myself to be a fairly technical user, and I2P even seems a bit daunting for me. I think one thing that makes Tor so well used is the fact that Tor browser exists where it's already pre-configured to just work as soon as you open it. I currently even host my Monero node as a Tor hidden service with the proof of work defenses enabled and a couple of other hidden onion services for my home assistant setup.

Edit: With even supposedly democratic Western governments beginning to censor the internet, I am thinking very seriously that at some point it may be required to use Tor and I2P to actually access useful information on the internet and that there will be a bifurcation of the internet into those who know and those who don't.

Currently i use my podcast app (AntennaPod), F-Droid, several Monero wallets, Molly (signal fork), and SimpleX all over the tor SOCKS5. I don't have any reason to do so except to generate cover traffic for those who are using it for more necessary purposes and to understand how the networks operate as far as bandwidth, etc., are concerned.

Every time it is possible to access anything as a hidden service, I will do so. I have my F-Droid repos, for example, using their hidden service equivalents instead of the clearnet ones. Just because I can. And I love having F-Droid repositories that are hidden services only.

Edit 2: It took me 31 minutes to pull 51 megabytes of data to synchronize my Monero wallet over an i2p hs. An onion tor hs would have had that done several times over in that time