E.g., the first bit:
> > For example, if you don’t have a backlog of ready commits, then speeding up your deploy rate may not be valuable.
> Does this mean speeding up deploys to 1 minute is valueless? That’s crazy talk!
That looks to me like a blatant straw man. The quoted author said "may", meaning there may well be other reasons that faster deploys is better. And there are, for a different model which the article's author suggests but doesn't bother to explain with the rigor that he's expecting from people talking system dynamics.
For any intellectual tool, some people apply it blindly and some put in the work to use it contextually. Can you use SD approaches blindly? Sure. But in my experience it's way less common than the the person using an implicit model (e.g., the tiresome "software is a factory" analogies).