Jumping to conclusions? lolz, sry.
Depends who you ask, most mongers might agree ...but families walking past with kids in tow might see older sex tourist preying on younger socio-disadvantaged girls who might even be underage, their only point of reference might be that documentary they watched about poor northern farmers selling/leasing their teenage daughters to Bangkok pimps, some others might see a western pedo scene of some kind, don't underestimate the power of appearances, venues like this would face resistance in most western cities for much the same reasons. ...bkk already has a bad reputation on a global level for such things.
I would say the opposite is true, street walkers are way more discreet, sometimes you have to look twice to make sure ..whereas go go bars etc are way more obvious.
Yeh, mongers, pimps, wgs, mafia ..but the majority of thai society would welcome it imo.
Sounds like wishful thinking, the article does say, aiming to eradicate all prostitution ....but I guess we'll have to wait and see how that plays out.