Character names: Unpronounceables, Apostrophes and Foreign Accents are neck tattoos.

I nearly always use real world names, even in fantasy settings. Trying anything else nearly always ends up sounding incredibly silly.

And that's without going into all the stuff this article writes about.

The author makes a good point, but I think there is an argument to be made against such an anglocentric view.

First and foremost if you are writing something you want to read, then someone else will want to read it to (big number statistics...).this doesn't mean that it'll sell a million copies, but writing isn't about that.

Second, embracing other cultures and mindsets is so important. Especially if your protagonist is a human (an English speaker) and they encounter an ancient and powerful race (perhaps with Hindu names and culture), then it becomes important that the difference exists. And the story can serve as a metaphor for real cultures, thereby educating someone on a more worldly perspective from the comfort of their own home.

Finally, a concession: If you are trying to appeal to the largest audience from a US/UK publisher, stick with simple English. If you are going to stray away from that, then do what I mentioned in the second point: Introduce a strong sense of normal English before going into the deeper complexities of another culture and language. This feels real to life no matter what your background because everyone things their language/culture is normal and that another language/culture is foreign.

Don't not do something because someone on the internet told you not to. Or even because a famous author told you not to. Break the mould, just accept that doing so will not always result in success.

I get where the writer is coming from - weird-looking names can be difficult and are often red flags to agents - but I wouldn't go so far as to say that "Amélie" is an unpronounceable. Counterpoints:

• Nixing every name that isn't "normative" means eliminating a lot of character diversity (and related worldbuilding), and that kinda sucks. In an industry that already suffers from being "too white", do we really have to take all the Guillaumes out of our novels just because English speakers aren't familiar with that name? Additionally, removing unusual names means we have to find some other way to worldbuild/indicate heritage for particular characters - I can't just say that a doctor's name is Andrzej.
• Can't we expect the reader to do some work? If you really really need to know how to pronounce a name, maybe look it up? Discuss with other readers? Find the author on Twitter and ask them your burning questions?
• Honestly does it really matter to readers? I strongly subvocalize when I read - which means I hear a voice in my head, and I "hear" all the words. I often encounter unfamiliar and/or unpronounceable names, but that doesn't stop me from reading: I figure it out, or I make up sounds when I have to. It's in my head, I can pronounce "Löolë" any way I want - or I can replace it with "Larry".

What’s important is that you give the reader an excellent experience.

An excellent experience, to me, doesn't mean replacing every slightly unusual name with Chad and Jessica.

This is drivel. How can this person claim to be a writing professor? Not only is their blog ugly to read, irritatingly informal but also extremely anglocentric. Seriously, you don't even know what to do with umlauts?! There is an entire world out there, it doesn't need to be fantasy to use sounds outside of the proscriptive English phonetic dictionary.