Chesky has written several questionably motivated "opinion pieces" over the years. The problem with *him* saying something like "Perhaps there's an "X factor" not yet captured in current scientific testing" in the opinion (it is most certainly not a scientific paper) is that, given his name and the way it is for some reason widely respected, it may lead uninformed readers to think there is still something we can't measure in audio, which is the type of utter intellectual diarrhea that feeds "audiophilia nervosa". He's encouraging pople to trust their ears, not measurements. He endorses a step back to the dark, ignorant ages.
To me, that makes him just one more charlatan in the audio industry to ignore. Shame because he clearly did some good in audio. But sometimes success is just luck - when you throw enough truckloads of spaghetti at the wall, something's sure to stick. No one is "assassinating" his character... he doesn't need any help commiting self-character-suicide (at least as a credible helf-scentifically motivated audio figure) based on what he wrote in the original post. :-/