I bet the author will likely say you can't keep cigars fresh in an end table of your bedroom set. Bet he says you need a humidor.
Someone would then need to tell that to my dad, who for many years in Cuba kept them in a night table, with no seals, no cedar, with nothing more than a remikin with a wet sea sponge, no different than the rest of fellow Cubans did.
Does that make the author right because he has traveled the world?
Point of this analogy is it is an opinion and in the opinion of many, aging in cello is fine and works for them. We shouldn't be Jim Jones followers and drink the Kool Ade 'cause he said so.