The usage is different, but acoustics does not magically change, and goals acoustically need to be similar.Control room acoustics are nothing like home.
The article was not about professional control rooms. Did you read the article? It was talking about setting up a mixing studio.
I can only expect that most people who are posting here didn't take the time to read the articles in any depth and / or are commenting without understanding the articles.
They are practically how to articles on either speaker placement close to a wall and also far from a wall and whether near field, small speaker or large speaker does not matter. The methodologies and same decision making process must still be applied for optimum results.