He certainly put his claim in context, but my suspicion was that "I ended up finishing this 150-year process" was a bit grandiose, so I wanted to see if anyone

He certainly put his claim in context, but my suspicion was that "I ended up finishing this 150-year process" was a bit grandiose, so I wanted to see if anyone was familiar with this work. People can definitely be quick to criticize Wolfram for pomposity, but I've seen a lot of passages from A New Kind of Science where he says "I discovered X" but means "someone else discovered X, then I confirmed it for myself."