I had a friend who got corrective surgery and their eyesight got wrecked afterwards. I had several friends who got surgery and had no issues.

I depend on my eyes entirely too much to ever consider risking it, and contacts squick me out too much for me to use them. So I’ll settle for the hassle of glasses over the drawbacks of the others.

These lenses in the article in particular still aren’t for sale, despite the article being ten years old now. They do have a lot of ai-hype articles about them though.