As criticisms go, that's some weak tea. It makes Scripps pretty much like everybody else. Who doesn't hub anymore? Sinclair, Gray, Tegna, Tribune, Meredith, and Raycom all hub. I've heard Hearst does, but I don't know anybody there. I don't know about Hubbard, Calkins, Graham, or Quincy either. Lin had MC hubs. Media General has them. Nexstar has them. ABC and NBC O&O's don't even do their own hubbing. They farm it out. Fox and CBS hub.
That being said, I know for a fact Scripps hasn't hubbed the Journal stations. That might still be in the future, but I've heard no chatter yet.
In terms of Ignite-type systems, I've heard even Dispatch has brought that in recently. It's the way broadcasting is done in 2016. I went to lunch with somebody from an old McGraw Hill station recently, they had automation production control 10 years before joining Scripps. Scripps hired enough people that they're having trouble finding parking spots. McGraw Hill was cheap. I know with Buffalo, Granite was crazy cheap and there was open celebration that they'd been purchased. Now they're expanding the number of hours of news they're running or at least they will once they actually start running their weekend morning news.
And the systems aren't cheap. Corporate-wide rollout costs millions and have a 3+ year return on investment depending on what equipment you buy and how you structure your setup.
There are plenty of valid criticisms available concerning content. Hitting them for doing the same thing everybody does seems nitpicky.