The Veritasium video is kind of weird. The example is good and interesting and when I watched I thought he would then introduce the concept of transmission line

The Veritasium video is kind of weird. The example is good and interesting and when I watched I thought he would then introduce the concept of transmission lines (as taught in EE classes). It would make things clearer and gives an explanation and also maybe some intuition to problems like that. Instead he starts talking about the poynting vector, which makes things even more abstract and weird (and also he is slightly misleading about the poynting vector, especially for the DC case). It seems like he is trying to make things weird for the sake of weirdness and not trying to explain anything.