You've summed up neatly what I've tried to do miserably in another comment. While I was fascinated when I first saw the video, the questions that kept bugging me were: What was this design optimized for? What were the design goals behind it?

While the original source does not answer these questions, I came across a lot of answers here in the comments but none of them are substantiated yet.

If the design is optimized for the 4 minutes effect (which it seems to be, based on the compromises made) then I do not think this is simple design and I wonder if it would have the same effect on everyone if they took over an hour to field strip an "actual, drivable condition" Jeep like you say.