I would tend to agree with you. The bright foreground, as well as the bright sun in the daytime sky would not allow your eyes to dark-adapt enough to see thousands of stars.
Maybe this was written before Pluto's demotion. But Nasa media gets things wrong sometimes. I was watching Nasa Educational Files on television and they said something like "This 98 kilogram backpack would only weigh 17 kilograms on the Moon."
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