i think i found the issue: the paper says distance function is 0 IFF elements are equal. so for this example, you can not define d(1,2) as equal to 0. so it is not rich, as this is the only way to get the partition {{1,2}}.
Oh, I see, it's not a true metric. That's fair enough, though I wonder if the result depends critically on that assumption.
(you can pass to equivalence classes to recover a true metric, and I didn't see anything obviously incompatible with that in the paper, but I admit I didn't look very deeply)
