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I guess to actually answer the question posed in the title: no anarchy is not inherent to anarchism. C4SS is perhaps the clearest example of this but it certainly isn't limited to them, but most anarchism I've interacted with has little to nothing to do with anarchy and even anarchy which is the common usage of contemporary Insurrectionary anarchists and post left anarchists in the U.S. has little to do with anarchy. So to tie this with the plurality article I think it's important to reconcile that to try and draw a line around anarchism as something coherent is impossible. Even having ones own anarchy being consistent is a daunting task.

I think the best thing one can do is understand the critiques one has of anarchists like c4ss, and still see in what ways they can challenge the ruts we find ourselves in, but see every anarchism as something to ultimately push pass. And through honestly engaging with these sorts of texts/positions/people one can offer a critique that may help those who find themselves stuck in ideology as ultimately, or at least in my case, a large problem is overcoming this ideology, and fixed ideas we find ourselves within.

So while it's really easy to hate on c4ss and especially Gillis himself honestly engaging with people, even when they are completely closed off to ideas, I think can be helpful in offering to others, not just the person person are talking to, possible critiques to the framework they find themselves in.