This is old news, they write it in TOS that the bans can be also HWID bans. Which means that not all bans will be HWID bans and since we do not know which HW they issue the ban for it is hard to say whether this is effective or not. A ban on a hard disk is just super easy to overcome. A ban on a motherboard is somewhat harder.
Those articles are paid articles 99% of the times. They have old info made to look like brand new and presented/mass released to help gather people back into the game. They want to make it look as if they are doing something to combat the cheaters... All they are doing is trying to find which is the best way to monetize the battle pass and how much money should they charge for it. Before the battle pass goes live you should not expect any difference in the amount of cheaters in the game no matter what marketing sites tell you. They are not going to ban millions of players before the battle pass and risk losing them from customers.
