The author of this article clearly did not state or imply that. At best what can be implied from the next sentence you quoted is that they’re saying it’s the users’ fault that they bring it on themselves. “(Years of social engineering attacks should have made it clear that users can be induced to click on anything.)”

You seem to read what you want even though it’s not there so you can give that speech.

So it’s Java’s fault that users are allowing malware to run? That’s equivalent to a pedestrian being mugged by squatters in a building and blaming the architect of the building for it; such reasoning is about as disconnected from the actual cause of the problem as you can get.

If users are intentionally running malware on their computers, then how the heck is Oracle supposed to fix that? It doesn’t matter how secure a system is; in the words of Ron White, “you can’t fix stupid”.