Thanks for the thorough feedback! I really appreciate specific feedback like this. (I'm the author.)

I agree with many of these points, and the content of the book has more alignment with your perspective than the brief list of principles may suggest.

Many of these principles (and their names) still seem imperfect to me, but I've been struggling to find better ones. I'll take a look at The Kingkiller Chronicle; if you have other thoughts on how to improve the principles apart from what you've mentioned above, please don't hesitate to let me know.