As i said: none of them contains those old SDF nodes. They have new one SDF which are complitely different thing. FTP with old builds no longer contains any alpha versions at all.
Shadow settings are in the Miscellaneous 'box'. You've got High Quality which would be the stencily shadows. Balanced is probably the blob shadows. And none... well none.
I feel like he mostly was refering to like the kind of artist that none of us are... savvy, proffessional, and business oriented artists are none of the things he said.