The thing is, I would claim that causality, explainability and interpretability are all mixed together in human informal discussions of various phenomena. As others on the thread have pointed out, Pearl's causality isn't everyone's causality. A tension structure can disrupt our "common sense" idea of what's holding up what but tensions structure doesn't seem at all like a black-box, unexplainable item. The way the article mixes the range of these issues seems definitely wrong but I don't think that means the line between all things is normally crystal clear.