[pwr-electronics]

There's nothing deficient about transmission lines or lumped element models for answering the riddle. Distributed element models of transmission lines [1] clearly show a straight line path directly from the battery to the bulb without going through the whole wire.

Electroboom's criticism is that even if you're not misdirected by the setup, there's still a missing assumption required to arrive at the same answer as Veritasium.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Line_model_Heaviside.sv...