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If you had focused less on your crusade, you might have noticed that the original talk was given by Russ Ackoff, one of the pioneers of Operations Research and former Professor of Mathematics, Philosophy, Systems Sciences, Management Science, Fellow of the American Statistical Association and many more honors and titles.
You might say that Ackoff has helped bring formal methods to business and is surely he was very aware of their value and when to use them.
The fact that you find many of the points stated there obvious, doesn't mean they are not valuable to repeat. In fact it seems likely that a lot of these ideas have become so wide-spread in the meantime, that you don't even recognize their origin in these fields.
Specifically asking Prof. Ackoff if he has heard of the term "bottleneck" is just cringy and embarrassing.
This talk was given towards the end of his career as a summary of his learnings about systems. Maybe you would do well in considering if other sources of knowledge besides formalism and "science" have value in our society.
"systems thinking" might seems obvious to you as a software engineer, but most public-policy, corporate and medical decisions still suffer from massive Reductionism, ie. trying to solve problems in isolation without regard for feedback loops that might compromise the overall system or lead to unintended consequences.
Don't elevate yourself over others just because you know python, you are doing our whole profession a massive disservice by acting out your insecurities in this way.