As glib as that (and pieces like that often are) that is a pretty fair assessment of things in a nutshell, and stuff many of us have said.
Before we bought him I said the biggest issue might be his lack of dynamism, he's never been a busy cunt, and his success will depend on us also buying a proper 6, which is what he had at Lyon in Tousart or Cheikh most weeks, also playing CM3's with him lateral not as the central pivot, again how he excelled at Lyon.
As we all know, football is all about getting the blend and balance right, balancing of strengths and weaknesses of the various parts. Ndombele was never going to be the silver bullet for our completely dysfunctional midfield.
To be honest I still don't think Hojbjerg is that silver bullet either unfortunately, we needed a dedicated, dynamic and fucking tenacious 6 who would busy cunt around cleaning up, whilst the likes of Ndombele and Lo Celso can do more of the playing. I hope I'm wrong, I hope we shift to a CM3 system, Hojbjerg can do that simple job and we give Ndombele an actual run of games in that system to see if he can work.
The criticisms are fair in that piece to, he's got to learn and improve the weaker sides of his game, but he is still only 23, he's not started more than a couple of games in a row, players need to be taught and developed. The good shit is very rare, be such a shame to throw the baby out with the bathwater just because of a lack of patience.
And lets be real here as well, you can make (and some of us have) videos showing the likes of Winks, Sissoko, Dier etc all playing midfield and not tracking runners, or moving into space to receive the ball - that's basically Sissoko's 90 minute game plan.