Well, if you read the article, he partially seems offended because he feels it's devaluing how hard it is to move the body(but he uses an example of a disabled friend for that, and I am not sure if that is the wisest example...) and the rest is a sense of the technology being autonomous. The article ends on Which is sorta…
I'm not sure if it's useful as a final result, there'll probably be a lot of noise in the animation. But it could be great to use as reference for when you need something that looks uncanny (the nurses from Silent Hill for example). And to me an "insult to life itself" is to boil a lobster while it's still alive.
I wonder if the reaction would have been the same if the devs had rigged a mechanical robot model rather than a horror theme. Also wording the way the rigs "learn" to move differently, without the use of the word "Pain", which seems to have struck a "bad" chord. "The robots can detect stress levels in their joints and…