I actually watched this last night, and while I totally understand that criticism is easy, and making things is hard (and the production quality here is great); I got a weird vibe from the video when it comes to who it is for.

The technical explanations are way too complex (even though they're "dumbed down" somewhat with the colour mixing scenario), that anyone who understands those will also know about how dependencies work and how Linux came to be.

It feels almost like it's made for people like my mum, but it will lose them almost immediately at the first mention of complex polynomials.

The actual weight of the situation kinda lands though, and that's important. It's really difficult to overstate how incredibly lucky we were to catch it, and how sophisticated the attack actually was.

I'm really sad that we will genuinely never know who was behind it, and anxious that such things are already in our systems.

My partner who is an accountant, so intelligent but not technical, watched some Veritasium documentaries the other day.

Her comment was that she was really impressed that it didnt dumb anything down like normal documentaries do. She was able to follow along more technical stuff than she anticipated, and that made her enjoy it even more.

I think we need to give people more credit when it comes to complex or techincal explanations. If people are enjoying the context but dont understand the techincal, they can just gloss over that if they prefer. But I felt this was quite telling at how and why Veritasium is such a popular channel.

Veritasium started out as a physics channel, and they've covered a wide variety of physics, math and science topics. They are never afraid of showing you the math, but one of the things I think they are really good at is not losing the human part of the story even if you can't follow the numbers exactly. At the end of the day it's humans who came up with this stuff in the first place, so it must be possible to understand it.

They aren't really a technology channel though, at least as it relates to software/computers, so that's probably why the video starts out with a brief history of Linux.