We go from "the only difference between US and Chinese social credit systems is honesty" to "here are all the multiple differences between these systems"

I also find including both honesty ("Here's why we're doing this") and transparency ("Here's how we're doing it") as concepts without meaningfully distinguishing between them or engaging with them drags the piece down. The latter is the more problematic one for me, especially given the conclusion:

Because for the first time, you'll finally understand the game you've been playing all along. And knowing the rules means you can finally choose whether you want to play.

Didn't we open the piece with credit score, and note how "it affects where you can live, which jobs you can get"? There is no choosing whether or not to engage with credit profiling—even not having a score is engaging with it. And as they point to in the article, even the more peripheral scorings like Uber, Amazon, etc will become increasingly impactful as their systems become more interconnected. That's not to say there's no value in being mindful of how you're scored, but it's not the same thing as being able to opt out.