Sorry Herk - I gotta agree with Jayx. I think you might have done what I did and just skim it. Jayx's comment made me go back and read it properly. The writer makes some good points and all of them are valid. In many ways all he's saying is don't just dump things into divs as a replacement for table cells because it calls what we now refer to as 'divitis' and breaks up your layout just as badly and non-semantically as tables did. Like he says, there's nothing particularly new in his opinion, but that doesn't make him wrong.
However, I think azharc may be a little mistaken in his choice of defense. The article itself doesn't support his layout choices - more the opposite in fact.