Good article with simple concise explanations. I actually don't remember knowing that the Simple recovery model had minimally logged operations. I thought the logging was the same as FULL. Learned something new even though I thought I understood the topic.

One note, I usually change the model database to simple because I have the model log grow and I don't want or need to do log backups. This does mean I need to specifically set the recovery model to FULL for new databases that I know need log backups, but I normally do that anyway.