No, it doesn't. You, and the good professor, both seem to miss the distinction between calibration (a basic device modification), and monitor profile (a description of the device in its current state).
The "good professor" in fact discussed
calibration using various hardware devices, listing several from Pantone, Datacolor and X-Rite in Part One. The purpose of using these devices, which is what the article discusses, is to generate a profile of the monitor.
It appears that you may be assuming the article is about the
hardware configuration of the monitor, which it is not.
A color managed application like Lightroom or Photoshop doesn't care whether the monitor is calibrated or not. It's irrelevant for the purpose. All it cares about is the profile, the description.
The purpose of
calibration is to produce the profile. Absent calibration there is no profile and therefore no real color managed system at all.
A standard color management chain converts from a source profile to a destination profile, and that's exactly what happens here. The document profile is converted directly to the monitor profile and that is what goes to the display. IOW, the calibration is not part of the color management chain.
A "document profile" cannot be converted directly to a "monitor profile" absent a profile of the display device having been made with a calibrator. IOW, the display device characteristics that are profiled play a very important part in a color managed system.
From a color management perspective, a reasonably good monitor doesn't need to be calibrated beyond setting the white point (which then becomes simply "white"). It just needs to be profiled.
Calibration is the method by which a profile is produced.
(You might want to set the black point as well, but leave that out for now).
I'm sure professor Jim Perkins is a great scholar, but he's very out of date regarding color management. Everything he's saying in that article relates to using non-color managed software. That's the extent of its "authority".
He knows that calibrating a monitor produces a profile of the monitor.
"The sensor measures a series of colors on your screen and creates a “profile” that brings your display to a reference state." Datacolor's description of calibrating a monitor at <http://spyder.datacolor.com/portfolio-view/spyder4elite/>.
"monitor profiles are prepared when conducting calibration" Eizo's description of calibrating a monitor at <http://www.eizo.com/global/library/management/calibration/>.