Being critical should also apply to being critical towards articles that are being critical.

Going lead-free is an important topic, lead is a toxic and problematic substance to use in consumer products. Naturally whilst there are initial problems in finding replacement sources in all cases, imho it's rather silly to say that then the best option would be to not try to go lead-free at all. Selecting between the vast array of health effects caused by lead exposure or "whiskers" should be easy.