Agreed. This article doesn't try to navigate the nuance around why someone still may actually want to follow a program that sounds like disproven broscience. Whether it's about better understanding your limits, familiarizing yourself with the feel of much heavier weight, or trying to make the most of a very short workout, it often makes a lot of sense to include things that aren't the biological optimal choice.
Jeff Nippard does a much better job a presenting things as a trade-off that you should consider when choosing or designing your program.
This doesn't seem like he was "butthurt and caught slackin'." The tone of the report seems like he's frustrated that he was hired to do a job, and not given the resources / authority to make the necessary sweeping changes. Perhaps someone with a more political approach could have influenced leadership better. But they hired an extremely technical person, not an extremely political person.
id Tech games have "timedemo" mode, where they replay a pre-recorded demo as fast as possible, and report how many FPS it was able to process. These were very popular benchmarks long ago.
You really don't actually want this. This intermediate CA would still be subject to the same extensive CAB Forum / vendor root program requirements (audited yearly via WebTrust) as a root CA. There are a ton of requirements, including mandatory response times, that inevitably makes this require a fully staffed team to operate.