Also in his Intro he explains:

"In asking whether the hub hangs or stands on the spokes, I really mean to question where the structurally active spokes are."

He then proceeds to prove that the bottom spokes loose a lot of tension under loading while the top spokes remain with pretty much the original pre stress.

He then concludes that the bottom spokes (now lightly loaded) are more structurally active.

If he had pre stress his model would have showed larger numbers in the top spokes than the bottom and would have been less confusing. Then I would have said his analysis is good. Which it is but his conclusions are all up the screw.