Although Medium declares this piece as a "9-min read", it took me half an hour to actually understand it.
But it is well written.
I won't jump the fence in calling this objectively better than what we have currently, it might be subjective depending upon various factors, but largely I still support this new take on UI development in Android.
Will be getting my feet wet definitely with Compose. After all, those dangling XML references can get unmanageable. Thanks :)