I'm not sure what you mean by "strawman version of op amp oscillation"; for many it's the colloquial term for oscillation. You can accomplish it very easily with many classic distortion circuits, especially on a breadboard. Guitar pedals are almost always run off a unipolar 9V supply. Large bypass caps are the normal (usually cargo culted over as a 100u at the input).
There's a lot of constraints that either remain due to the restrictive power supply requirements on top of tradition or people building off designs from the 90s that were hand assembled and took BOM golf to the next level.
Motorboating is not a colloquial term for all oscillation. It's a very low frequency instability consisting of a train of pulses which, when played through a speaker, sound like an internal combustion engine with a short exhaust.
The op-amp oscillation the article is talking about occurs in the radio frequency range. Tiny parasitic capacitances induce 180° phase shift at some very high frequency where the op-amp's open loop gain has dropped to unity.
You can't hear this directly since it's not in the audio range. It brings about distortion. The amp may pass audio signal, but the oscillation prevents it from performing properly.
In the contexts I was talking about (hobbyist DIY guitar pedal forums) motorboating is often used as a catch-all for many types of oscillation, probably because the symptoms you describe are a very common error. Sometimes you get lucky and can tune the resulting oscillator by turning the guitar's volume knob!
I wasn't trying to assert anything about the article, just responding to a comment about desired op amp imperfections in guitar effects. It's fairly common practice to bandwidth limit high gain op amp stages to avoid the issues discussed in the article, amongst other things.
There's a lot of constraints that either remain due to the restrictive power supply requirements on top of tradition or people building off designs from the 90s that were hand assembled and took BOM golf to the next level.