Indeed, the writer basically provided a demonstration of the intellectual bulldozing of which he accuses Socrates.
Sure, tear everything down, but please show something improved in its place.
"If we had paid more attention to the more modest aspirations of Aristotle we would not have got so sidetracked by sceptical concerns that true knowledge is impossible."
I find that sentiment to be so much unimpressive nihilism, but YMMV.