I've said this before, and I'll say it again. The trophy/achievement system is a terrible system. I'd refuse to participate. I play games because I like them, I don't need to stomp on 10,000 Goombas to get a little icon that says I stomped on 10,000 Goombas.
`Then don't do it but don't call it a terrible system, honestly how does it affect you if you just don't hunt for them?
Do you have a link to the article?
No sorry, I had read it a few hours before I originally posted now its lost in the abyss of "random google searches"