Because the drones are hard to detect, jam, shoot down, have at least 120km range, uses visuals + local map so GPS jamming is useless against it and can daisy chain the comm link.
Not like they don't know it, they launch hundreds of those at civilian houses and infrastructure.
It's meant as a direct answer to the article title, which asks about the 'martian' drones specifically.
Autonomous Ai drones roaming the country side was a plot point in An American War. It wasn't a good thing in the book.
Maybe we shouldn't judge real world technology off of plot points in works of fiction. Fiction must tell a story that sells copies, first and foremost.
Better weapons tend to filter down.
-then an even smaller group are fans as they aren't getting targeted by the drones. Yet.
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