You should also consider the audience. It is likely the audience that would prefer your approach would not need to talk about this at all. They'd understand it with a few simple words.
Distilling it down to mathematics though will not reach a lot of people. I believe those are the likely audience for this particular article.
The target audience matters. He didn't tell me anything I didn't know in this piece. Yet he did frame it in a way that might wake some other people up.