Chief’s Navier-Stokes has a diffusion term. Diffusion is a model of random walk. Random walk is a stochastic property. Therefore a significant fraction of what Chief is rebelling against doesn’t make a lot of sense.
Many times the phenomena observed are due to a behavior called stochastic resonance. What happens here is that certain trajectories in the state space get randomly amplified, and because of that amplification become observable above the underlying steady state behavior.
This concept was originally put forward in the seminal papers by Benzi, where they used it to address recurrent ice ages, and also Nicolis about the same time.
The point is that stochastic properties provide a more fundamental foundation than Chief is asserting.