Such intolerance astounds me .
One of the characteristics of beekeeping is that there are many ways of doing everything (the old adage of asking ten beekeepers the same question and you get 20 different answers) Why mock and condemn the person that do things differently to you. There are lots of people happy to use matchsticks and have been doing so without problems for years. I don't use and have never used matchsticks myself but would not dream of mocking those that do advocate them. Similarly I don't mock so called "Natural" beekeepers and top bar beekeepers with their unconventional methods. Live and let live.
I know Wendy (writer of article in BBKA mag) fairly well. She is well thought of in Yorkshire and I can tell you she is a good and knowleable beekeeper, winner of the wax chandler prize and has been keeping bees very successfully for several years. If she wants to advocate the use of matchsticks with solid floors then that is fine by me. It is equally fine for others to disagree with such methods but there are polite ways of doing this.