Very clear and lucid. I was familiar with these terms but we can always benefit from having things we think we know presented in a new way.
I love the fighter jet illustration for entropy. Another way in is to think of a teenager's bedroom. Disorder will increase unless there is an input of work.

"Work" is also a technical scientific term. I had to deal with it all the time when studying for my engineering degrees. It refers to when force is applied to an object causing a change to occur. As when you pick up a piece of discarded underwear from the floor of a teenager's bedroom. That piece of dirty underwear now has potential energy, another one of those scientific concepts that's a bit of a mind bender. I better shit up now.