Of course they should get some credit (although I can't tell how much). But my issues are legitimate:
1. Why does this discovery get an article, when hardly anyone can tell yet whether it's important or not?
2. Scale and temperature are very important. Quote from you: "...a whole host of experiments to be EASILY performed..."
No experiment at such a low temperature is easy.
And just because they found this particular system, which behaves nice in some ways, doesn't mean, they will find a similar system where this knowledge can be useful. Curie-temperature, energy-bands, spin-polarization, lattice-structure... They could all be different.
My point is: There is no guarantee, any of this research will bear any relevance. (There is almost never a guarantee. 
) And I think the article makes a pretty big leap from "we'll see" to "a revolution in quantum-computing".
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