> Aside from everything else, I don't understand what Whittaker's point was; she seemed to ultimately be advocating for something, but I can't understand what, exactly.

The whole talk felt like it was gearing up to making a point but then it ended. It turned out that the point was to blame our current situation on the "sins of the 90s". To be fair, it was in the title all along so I'm not sure why I was expecting otherwise.