The Deadspin article OP posted is obviously designed to crap on MLB, and you can contest the fairness of some of it, but nothing they wrote wasn't true.
I guess I'm getting older, because I'm finding the descriptions of the modern ballpark experience to be depressing. Who fucking cares about clubs with the charm of an airport sports bar with Aramark food service?
The Giants, who have built a mighty big rod for themselves by jacking up ticket prices and explicitly chasing the techie buck during EYBS,
debuted something called the Cloud Club, which looks like the lamest place you could ever watch sports in. Tampa Bay going cashless seems
insane given their market is disproportionately elderly people on a fixed income who probably prefer using cash. Hell, I prefer using cash. You keep track of your money better, much less the data issues involved. The bag stuff is garbage. It's an obvious scam. The NFL does it, but guess what? The NFL is also a scam. I go to Arsenal FC and the bag check takes less than 10 minutes, and even then people there detest it. Season ticket holders would riot (not now) if they banned bags.
I feel like MLB is deciding the sport is in terminal decline and just milk the ageing baseball fan population and damn the consequences. Who cares if in 2050 baseball is as popular as horse racing or the Indy 500 or boxing or all the other sports that were kings 50 years ago. We'll be dead by then.