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I disagree. I've seen very complex boolean expressions and they were clearly code smell. Sometimes acceptable but definitely a fertile area for refactoring.
Their example is crap to be fair - two comparisons is not complex.
If you do have a super complex boolean expression, I wouldn't call it a smell. It'll be much more obvious