Sorry to have missed this article earlier. I really like your breakdown of the points here.

In the long run, you don’t hurt people by inspiring them to become more. You hurt them by making it normal to settle for being less.

It is so easy to play into this complacent mediocrity. And I don't mean mediocrity in a traditional production sense, more so when people become fine with being the mediocre version of who they could be. Who they should be.