In the few cases I've come across where people have claimed this, the stuff behind the curtain has usually turned out to be a muddled simplification of the orig

In the few cases I've come across where people have claimed this, the stuff behind the curtain has usually turned out to be a muddled simplification of the original made possible by additional constraints. Think Kirchhoff's circuit laws vs Faraday's law but with less math and more crackpottery.