-Cash is far more anonymous than Bitcoin is.
-Miners don't just "stop profiting" when there's no longer a block reward. Transaction fees rising as high as they are now is nothing to do with the block reward.
-People not understanding Bitcoin for now is a good thing. It doesn't mean that Bitcoin is particularly hard to understand.
-Buying on Bitstamp is safe enough. You don't have to keep it there forever.
Yes, I agree with you in general. But on the other hand I agree with them on that WannaCry and Japan's legalization were among the main factors of bitcoin's recent rising. But most likely they took that analytics from somewhere else rather than wrote it by themselves.