Book was clarifying on the numbers (they had all the data a highschool AP stats class could've used to determine they were in huge trouble and simply refused to comprehend it) but main takeaway was that in '08 the DNC understood they should never run her and in '16 they did not.
I expect the big difference there is that CS classes have always assumed you will attempt to copy your code off the web, are more or less fine with that for homework, and moved to paper exams decades ago.
The place it's particularly solid is that it powered through the revisionist view of witches that had them on the outs: it puts all the things people use to explain away witches in the movie, sets the whole thing up to be mundane paranoia or ambiguous, and then NOPE IT'S WITCHES.
The American Kestrel is borderline self-taming so it's actually not that hard. The real hurdle is you now have a flying cat that cannot be litterbox trained and leaves flensed animal carcasses around the house.
All his writing has the same Star Wars "Expanded" Universe problem where it actually shrinks the implied universe by detailing that everything was the same shit you already saw or more boring than that.
34 down and have only made two errors, it turns out the single most reliable indicator of being AI on otherwise passable attempts is "the composition is fucked"