I think the point is not so much to present a purely logical viewpoint as it is to present a culturally removed viewpoint that still comprehends engineering fun

I think the point is not so much to present a purely logical viewpoint as it is to present a culturally removed viewpoint that still comprehends engineering fundamentals, since any hypothetical human on Earth with such a comprehension would have to be already familiar with the status quo. See, for instance, the first example, where the C programming environment is presented as "simple", but then acknowledged to be actually enormously complex, due to the many specific platform assumptions presupposing it (such as the abstraction of files and directories, which every human developer today comprehends as practically a law of nature).