I think this is a bad piece. But then "popular cosomology" often tends to be.

If the article is portraying the issues accurately, then these scientists are saying that the constants of physics are what they are so that life can exist. This is utter nonsense.

] The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems
] pointless.

Why should the universe be anything other than pointless?

Zillions of Universes? Or Did Ours Get Lucky?