According to the article, what is one benefit of tuning a guitar to play a chord without the need for
the fretboard?

well if you have a lion for example it will kill you and that's why you shouldn't have and exotic animal

i think it's either 'to expose the corruption of the communists in russia', or 'to criticize animal brutality by communists in russia.'  

hope this ! : )

yes this is an analog in my view