Robert Distinti posted an interesting video wherein he covers his understanding of various theories and their weaknesses as per his own understanding of them:
Here's a chart from his video he produced:
Perhaps the most interesting part is a revelatory point that struck me powerfully since I previously missed it: He conveys the concept of a "super dense" ether wherein our physical world is "wispy" or very non-dense. I had not previously considered this - at least not fully - and my mind is still working to wrap around the ramifications of this. The following comparative diagram (wherein I believe he doesn't quite portrays DeMeo/Reich's theory entirely properly) may be of interest:
He apparently talks about this in two previous videos I somehow skipped over: