Part of it is that a lot of my Deep Thought drew from what felt like a pretty good retrospective understanding circa 2002 and the stuff since then hasn’t been prechewed so I can’t magisterially pronounce on it

It’s like how for at least half a decade in the mid-2000s Matt Yglesias was the “let me tell you what they teach you about American urban development in the Ivy League” guy. And some densification stuff downstream of that (and his Greenwich Village upbringing) is still his beat but he doesn’t really engage with, say, the recent move away from Jane Jacobs, driven largely by R/stata allowing “data wonks” more sophistication and encouraging them to conclude that contra Jacobs, technocratic analysis rules and community sentiment drools