Yes, I voted for Drai when this thread was started almost 3 week ago, because it asked who I'd take now, and Draisaitl was coming off the better season, playoffs, and had comparable stats to start this season despite being 2 years younger. If I had to vote on this season alone I'd take Gaudreau obviously as he's had an incredible start to the year and Draisaitl's had some struggles to go along with a concussion.
As for the numbers i posted, they are pretty good for a guy playing centre at the age of 20 and 21, especially when the sample of 31 in 37 came playing with players like Slepyshev, Maroon, Caggiula, etc. Aka 3rd/4th liners in 3rd line minutes. Do I think Draisaitl would put up the numbers he puts up with McDavid by centring his own line? Obviously not there aren't any good wingers on this team, and pretty much every other good player in this league gets to play with at least one other top line quality forward when "driving their own line". Really doesn't matter what your article predicts will happen in the future, I'll stick what has actually happened which was a dominant playoff series at centre, and 82P in 109GP centring his own line before the age of 22.