That article rather misses the point. There are many kinds of cleansing wipes - some contain plastic, some don't, so a ban on single-use plastic products doesn't correspond directly to a ban on wet wipes. The trouble at the moment is getting consumers to recognise the difference between the different kinds. Cheap, strong, baby wipes usually have non-biodegradable polymers and strong resin binders; they work well for the user but are not so good for the enironment. True biodegradeable wipes are typically more expensive to buy and not as strong in use, although new manufacturing methods are closing the gap. Banning the use of plastics would push more R & D into the enironmentally sustainable versions and boost their sales, in turn making them cheaper and better.
There was an outcry when legislation come in to restrict the power of domestic vacuum cleaner motors; uninformed people were saying that if it took longer to clean the house with a less powerful cleaner, it wouldn't save energy. What the legislators knew was that manufacturers were saving money by making less efficient motors and fans, that consumed way more power than actually needed to give the correct amount of suction. New cleaners can have just as much suction, but the legislation has stopped lazy, inefficient designs reaching the market. The same can be true of wipes - we could probably have luxurious soft wipes that were completely biodegradeable, if people would stop taking the easy way out and using plastic.
As for the sewer issues, again there has been a lot of hype here. For every newsworthy fatberg there are a thousand private drains blocked with fat that hasn't travelled 10 feet from peoples' kitchens. Since the beginning of sewers, there has always been a need to clean fat, silt and debris out of them, which used to be done by human effort on regular patrols. Not nice work and now mechanised for the most part, but the financial pressure on water companies has probably reduced the maintenance below the necessary level. Flushed wipes do get stuck in fat and on screens and contribute to the need to clean sewers, but again it's usually the 'wrong' wipes that should never be flushed.