Haven't seen the MM article, but did see the MA.

Running a Blaster 2 w/o a ballast works fine. For a long time. For many many miles. In high heat.

I think somebody linked the other recent thread about it. I will say again that this seems to be an engineering theory that was thrown out there. People then ran with it and little actual testing was done. It's unlikely that I happened to have a one off set of parts that happen to work well, despite the dire warnings.