No? The article is talking about RNA World hypothesis vs. RNA-Protein World hypothesis. The RNA world hypothesis has been accepted widely for a long time.
Before membraneless RNA viroids were discovered, some abiogenesis researchers may have thought that DNA is fundamentally required for self-replication, so whatever first occurred must have had it. But this is simply a lack of imagination on what RNA can do.
Before membraneless RNA viroids were discovered, some abiogenesis researchers may have thought that DNA is fundamentally required for self-replication, so whatever first occurred must have had it. But this is simply a lack of imagination on what RNA can do.