So General would have created a General instead of Args?

yes,
This is a must, you have to specify the hyperparameters section you are referencing.
https://github.com/allegroai/clearml/blob/5a9155b2039413280f13dfded1121470c4c4323d/examples/pipeline/step2_data_processing.py#L21
This is actually:
task.connect(args, name='General')Basically there is no "random_state" only "General/random_state"
Make sense ?