quantum mechanics - In the double-slit experiment of electrons (observed by photons), is it correct to say the collapse is caused by the momentum of the photons?

I'm working off the article, The Double Slit Experiment Demystified. Disproving the Quantum Consciousness connection. I think it's well-written, but I'm not convinced about this part:

So what is causing the change in the particle’s behaviour?

In the example given above, when electrons are fired at a fluorescent screen, when we bombard the electrons with photons the interaction changes the state of the system catastrophically as, despite lacking mass, photons do carry momentum.

Here the author strongly implicates the momentum of photons as being responsible for the collapse. But is that correct to say?

I have read that the quantum eraser experiments verified that obscuring which-way information restores wave-like behavior. So it feels to me it's more about some "outer" state (perhaps well-characterized as "information") that we don't yet understand that collapses the system, not per se the photon-electron interaction.

Or am I wrong, and in fact for example, the process of obscuring in the quantum eraser experiments somehow "undoes" the photon-electron interaction or restores the quantum state through another interaction?