These things are for those who already appreciate how direct/retrogrades are partitioned but unfortunately only partially deal with the entire astronomical composition.

The VOX and CBS explanations are good enough in some respects but they still try to reference the motions of the inner planets to the background stars instead of their back and forth looping motion around the Sun. In this case the illusory loops are not due to relative speeds between the faster Earth and the slower moving outer planets as we look away from the Sun but rather the loops are normal and actual as we see their direct motion around the Sun from a wider viewpoint.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VVCiPp67vI&t=221s

I am accustomed to people disgracing themselves, not the hapless who are mere drones and nuisances, but rather those who have worked out how to use modern tools with observations for the benefit of humanity yet deny the inspiration behind it.