I'm happy to explain.
OK here's why I say that. Both spots are in locations with plenty of indication that you should be checking with a chisel and by the time those indications are frozen to safe thickness, so will my breakthrough spot.

The first one (where we took the video) is on a pressure crack in only about 30 inches of water. We chose that spot because we could see the bottom and knew it was only mid thigh deep; enough to float the Wilcraft,but not over-your-shoulders deep.
If you're crossing that pressure crack without checking with a chisel, you're gonna be in trouble whether I was there or not.

In the second one (the picture of the longer trough of broke ice) you can see a long finger of open water to the left of where I broke in; it looks like a creek mouth. What you don't see is that about the same distance to the right there is open water the sized of a city block with a bunch of geese in it. Until those two spots freeze, you're not gonna get through there without checking with a chisel either. And my hole is gonna refreeze long before the open water on either side of it does.

As far as "plowed out sections on south metro lakes" goes; Spring Lake is the only lake south of I94 that I know of a Wilcraft being on this fall. And I know where most all of them have been for the last two weeks.

BTW, neither spot is right out in front of an access. I drive real slow going out from the access and especially coming into the access; so as not to "blow out the ice" right at the bottom of the boat ramp.
Also neither spot is between the access and the community hole spots.