Not as bad, but the methane is still a major issue.
And yes, I will, as soon as it's able to be made safely at large scale such that the cost of a meatball isn't egregious, which is still a number of years away. I think, incidentally, that it will be mostly things like meatballs - making synthetic ground beef is much easier than making a synthetic rib eye.
The article, though, is not talking about synthetic meat, but fake, plant-based meat alternatives like beyond meat or impossible burgers. I'm talking about meat grown in a lab - a la
https://www.memphismeats.com/. The plant-based stuff is just seasoned to mask the flavour to make it sort of approximate to meat. Synthetic meat is meat, it was just never part of a living animal. That's the path forward, if it can be made feasible.