I hope a lot more research is put into this subject to find out. It's something that can greatly improve people's lives.

More effort thus far has been put into figuring out how to overcome people's willpower and induce them to make poor decisions not in their own interests.

On the bright side, most of the strategies to improve willpower will be effective regardless of which model is actually true.

From the article, it does appear to be so easy, if the article writer had not been intentionally obtuse and on purpose interpreted the "resource view" as significantly stricter than what he later admits the proponents of it actually intends it.

I found myself seeing example after example in that article and thinking I didn't see the purported problem, until I came to that bit at the end and realized that the author was knowingly presenting the examples in the context of a version of the "resource view" that I've not seen anyone argue for.