"Got" is the usual past participle in British English. Even if you don't speak British English yourself, it does count as a valid form of the language - even if of course a barbaric, corrupted one, degenerate, practically a pidgin.
> "Got" is the usual past participle in British English.
Had the author declared what English dialect they were using and/or critiquing, and were it British English as well, then this is a salient point indeed.
