Is your comment from before or after it was replaced in the last year? Even before it was replaced we thought it was fine. Besides some 1-lane bridges, what's not to like? I would not compare it to the very winding road to Hana.
Regarding the original article - I am 100% for the new restrictions on the north shore - people were destroying it, and the millions of crazy people parking in clearly marked no-parking zones were extremely annoying. Then there were the people who stood on the coral reef, and the people who mobbed the monk seals, which are an endangered species. We are eager to see how the land and ocean have recovered after their sabbatical.
If some visitors are too impatient/self-indulgent to be willing to comply with the new visitor's restrictions, they are exactly the kind of people who should stay away.