Heresy, or a Breakthrough? On Refrigerating Tomatoes (!)

From SeriousEats.com, circa 2014: Why You Should Refrigerate Tomatoes and Ignore Anyone Who Says Otherwise.

But, my question is, how did refrigeration affect the taste? I've always understood that refrigeration, despite keeping tomatoes looking fresher, is a flavor robber.

Yeah I thought it changed the texture and flavor. Is that a myth?

Would it not be best to leave them out and just be sure to eat them before they start to mold/rot?

Edit- after I posted I went ahead and read the actual article. It sounds like he's saying the counter top tomatoes start to get too ripe and the flavor degrades, partly because most kitchens are warmer than what is typically considered room temperature: 70 degrees.

One problem with his results is they are based on unscientific tastings by what sounds like him and his friends, and he may already have a bias towards refrigeration since he's written articles about it before. He did not taste the tomatoes blind, but said the other tasters did...

Also, people's taste buds and opinions on food are so different, it'd be hard to conclude one thing or another about any opinion-based food issue with just a few people involved in the "experiment".

Haven't refrigerated them for a very long time. To my mind, refrigerating destroys the texture and leaches out the flavor. If you can't use them fresh, don't buy 'em...or if you have too many because your garden is producing them, then either give 'em away or pickle or otherwise process and freeze them. But refrigeration is death.

I could not put fresh local tomatoes in the fridge. It does change them and not for the better. Make marinara, soup, or salsa or something. Those freeze well and are not too much effort.

I refrigerated a couple of my early garden tomatoes because I had to slice off a chunk of blossom-end rot from each, and they didn't suck, but they're certainly not up to the flavor of a tomato fresh out of the garden.

Letting them come to room temp would probably have helped them.

So my basic goal is to just keep up with eating them as fast as they ripen in the garden.