Because it's literally what I'm responding to:
"You can build a pretty good mental model of flight with either simplified mechanism"
For computational models, neither of these are great starting points. When I last looked, finite element methods were where the action was.
And if you don't apply the same to quantum -- looking for intuition -- you'll have a bad time. Quantum computing algorithms came from human insight.
I'm sure models can accurately compute how much of the wing lift comes from the suction effect on the top of the wing versus the push on the bottom of the wing.