You are right in a sense -- that example may be somewhat unfair; and actually I originally thought to use a different example, but that one was so messed up that I felt it might require about half a page to describe everything that was wrong with it.

But thing is that even now, after the quantum nature of the subatomic world is known to scientists for many decades, most laymen still imagine electrons like little tiny billiards balls. It's just easier for human intuition to pattern-match the macroscopic scale onto the quantum scale rather than consider the quantum scale by itself, free of macroscale-preconceptions. It's just easier for human minds to comprehend macroscopic-style objects...