Here's another depressingly correct one:
More Recycling Won't Solve Plastic Pollution

Related: Starbucks Bans Plastic Straws, Winds Up Using More Plastic

From the article you posted.
"...the new lids are recyclable, while the plastic straws the company currently uses are not."

Not all plastics are the same.

But the cups (assuming they're the standard plastic-lined paper) are not recyclable, and who separates the lids before tossing?

Well, I do. OTOH, nobody recycles anything in most restaurants and coffee shops because they don't have recycle bins, and if they do they just get full of trash and end up in the garbage anyway because people are lazy morons.

Alternatives don’t come cheap? Before plastic straws we used paper ones.

Yes, and paper straws cost more.

Drinking out a cup like a fucking grownup costs less than either.

That's ableist, though.

People who REALLY need to drink from straws due to disability lose out w/ this decision.

Plastic straws are sterile compared to metal straws and paper straws are expensive right now.

I feel like companies decided on straws because it is the least costly to make. Cutting straws from their production line probably won't even put a dent on their bank.