One on one a single soldier can take a tank, but war isn't one on one. First there isn't going to be one tank. There's going to be a bunch. The tanks are basically immune to small arms fire. Not true of an infantryman who is vulnerable to pretty much everything. So the guy with the Javalin has to steel his nerves while he hears the tanks coming towards him, then he has to pop up to take his shot and hope no one sees him and kills him. Then, even if he's successful he still might get killed afterwards. The tanks usually have infantry support as well. The article talks about the Javelin having greater range than infantry, but I doubt that is true in an urban environment (too many buildings).
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The videos I've seen, which, probably do suffer from selection bias of what is filmable, show ukranians blasting tanks from extremely far away. Far away enough that I would reckon the tank drivers had no practical way to observe, or even counteract against the infantry,especially if they're under some amount of cover and hidden until they strike.
The guidance on these weapons seem very impressive. Most attacks seem to be hitting the tanks while they're on a highway.
The russian tanks are shitty, and have no infantry support. So its hard to draw conclusions about how his would work against a competent foe.