the article claims that the sun is super inaccessible compared to escape velocity, but they are extremely closely related. as an orbit gets more and more ellipi

the article claims that the sun is super inaccessible compared to escape velocity, but they are extremely closely related. as an orbit gets more and more ellipitcal, the delta-v required to get the orbit to cut through the sun drops (for a well timed burn at aphelion), in the limit of escape velocity this delta-v vanishes to zero... the implication is that they are comparable in cost, if you were to use such a method to drop something into the sun.