Joseph:
I don’t want to totally swear off the article your referenced, but it was talking about Israel, which is a different bag than the US. Nowhere in the article did it suggest that the reason for the trend has anything to do with BT’s carrying views like feminism with them.
It referred to an influx the BT’s from the 70’s who got into hippie Judaism at one point. I think we can remove them from the debate since nobody in their right mind would have thought that brand was sustainable. Most of the article was about BT families not fitting in in “tribal” charedi culture in places like Meah Sharim. I can’t speak to the accuracy of that situation, but it certainly is not the case in America. It’s not a significant portion of the American BT community (if any) that try to immerse themselves in communities like Boro Part or Kiryas Yoel, so I don’t think it’s comparable.
The theme of that article tended to blame charedi isolationism for the trend of BT’s leaving the community. I assume you’re going to deny the claim of charedi blame and assert instead your claim that the trend is thanks to the BTs having progressive, 21st century baggage. You can make that assertion if you want, but that’s not what the article said at all.