Dear Ken,
I think your excellent essay is grossly undervalued. Even for me who understands and agrees with the principles of your model mechanics it was enlightening and well written. It was also right on topic as it's improved or alternative formalisms that I think we should be discussing. From your and my view it looks like the physics community is groping in the dark playing blind mans buff! Perhaps only a really good presentation can show the light. Yours is improving nicely. Full marks.
I think again you'll also like my own essay, which identifies the shortcomings of the mathematical approach, and hope you have a chance to read and score it. Indeed the 'hierarchical 'rules of brackets' formalism I describe has very close connections with your pyramid technique.
I'm pretty sure you'll also like my short video taking physical dynamic modelling to it's natural extreme, and showing the power of the hierarchical model we've both been discussing for some time.
9 minute video.
I hope your score keeps rising in the short time left.
Peter