It is, and as we discussed a long time ago already, the unfortunate part of the whole Veritasium example (not the theory itself) is that the transient phenomenon upon closing the switch and the operation at steady state have been blurred somewhat. I don't think this point has been fully addressed in the second video. But the problem is that having a transient phase is the only straightforward way of making the point. *Insert coin*
The claim Derek (Veritasium) made that "energy doesn't travel through wires" is more than ridiculous.
His so called "evidence" was to show that some energy arrives at the lamp before the electron wave has the time to travel the entire wire distance.
For anyone that properly understand what a capacitor is the obvious answer to that small amount energy that arrives earlier is the loss in wires/lamp while charging that capacitance and it is accurately described and calculated by the lumped model.
You can get rid of this capacitance charging through the lamp by shielding just one side of the circuit bypassing the lamp then it can be seen that no energy arrives at the lamp before the electron wave gets there.
This will show that capacitance charging is what produces an electron flow through the lamp and also shows that energy is delivered through wires else no energy could arrive at the lamp as it is shielded from electric field.
I need to apologise for being a bit rude in some of my replayes as most of you rely on you learned from others and unfortunately the way this is teached in schools is not up to current understanding.
I do not think it is OK for Maxwell to still be relevant when at his time the structure of the atom was not discovered. Yes the equations still work but the conclusions that can be drawn from them can be very misleading.
To be fair to schools I do not think any engineering school teaches that energy travels outside the wires but it also not makes that clear enough so that a youtube celebrity can not convince them the opposite is true.