I’m not a fan of this explanation. Entropy generation is only a side effect of life. It’s easy to imagine life arising in a universe without our version of entropy.
I'm very confused by this whole thread. Entropy is independent of 'life'. It's most canonically understood in terms of heat transfer, as it arose first from the study of thermodynamics.
How could life, or any complex matter at all exist without entropy?
Unless I missed someone recently receiving a Nobel prize for demonstrating proof of isentropic metabolism, or non-metabolic life, this doesn't answer the question whatsoever.