Of course it’s naive.

He observed problems and then offered solutions to the observed problems. His diagnosis was “too many containers”

Twitter does not lend itself to failure analysis techniques like five whys, but I feel like even one or two whys would have been helpful here

Why is there a back up in the port?

Too many empty containers.

Why are there too many empty containers?

…the answer to that is not a lack of storage space it’s about why the containers aren’t getting picked up/taken back