It's not clear how the strategy in the article differs from the one used by Wordle Bot, the analysis/feedback system that Wordle links to on the victory screen at the end of the game: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/upshot/wordle-bot.h...

The first page of the published paper ( https://orb.binghamton.edu/nejcs/vol8/iss1/6/ ) also claims that the game was developed by "Josh Wordle", so maybe it just isn't the highest-quality scholarship in the world.