Great article, Jeffe, thanks for the link.
All I can really say about the sale of AH is that it's just as well--the last really amazing thing they did was the Gamemaster series, and that's over ten years old. Their recent successes, like History of the World and Acquire, are just reprints of old games. In the short time Hasbro has owned the company they made some wonderful new versions of Risk and Axis & Allies, and now that it's part of WotC they've done a few more updates and come out with cool new games like House on the Hill.
The only real loss is for those who like the "cardboard chit" style games that use hexmaps and insanely complicated rules--and I know a guy who loves that stuff. Just one though. It's like the article said--AH was selling to a market that didn't really exist anymore. The new designers at WotC are going to do some great stuff, I think, because they grew up on games like Axis & Allies and have a fresh excitement to be working in the genre.