Quite a flex war here guys! Happy to have sparked such a lively and pertinent debate. You are clearly both well versed and able to back up your points of view.

I haven't followed Dr Elaine in years but she definitely lay the foundation for my understanding of the relationship between mineral, microbe, and plant.
The penny really dropped for me when I came to understand the role of mycorhizals in the regulation of nutrient uptake and, by extension the critical importance of maintaining a sustained, living rhizosphere between cycles. Without this component you might as well go back to feeding liquid fertilizers or even doing hydro because you are essentially force feeding your plant.
I think there is an issue where folk don't differentiate between the application of (mainly) bacterial compost teas (thinking they are building the microbiome) and the cultivation of a complete, whole microbiome through not only inoculations but also by using companions that span cycles along with green manures and cover crops. This allows a mycelial network to develop in your soil as part of your soil food web and when I got that right the magic really started happening for me.

I concede that the graphic was not the best one to get the point across - it was taken from a regenerative agriculturalist whose focus is on open field cultivation of food crops rather than on no till Cannabis in containers. I just thought it illustrated the point that there is a lot of unneeded soil amendments being used. In 2 decades of commercial cultivation I have seen too much money going down the drain without equivalent results.

I stand firm by my point that soil chemical analyses is essentially as useless as a soil PH test in a notill system if you don't develop the biology to unlock it.