A lot of people have been and continue to make this criticism that’s in the article, across a variety of the softer disciplines. (It’s like you’re not even familiar with this line of critique.)
I've studied political science a great deal, and there are absolutely nuanced critiques you can have here.
I personally, for example, find that political science went overboard in rational choice theory (borrowed from economics) over the past several decades, which hasn't turned out to be particularly fruitful. (And there are 20+ subfields of political science as well, rational choice being just one.)
But that's simply arguing over the relative usefulness of specific methods, like to what degree TDD should be used in software, or have we gone overboard with microservices.
The original article's absurdly broad critique of quantitative methods somehow taking over generally remains bizarre and completely uninformed.
See, eg. a criticism of political science in the same vein from a political scientist https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Political-Science-Beca...