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.
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.
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.