The main flaw in interpreting the tradwife is assuming that the tradwife is passive and therefore dumb.
It takes as many brain cells for the tradwife to cope, seethe, and (not dilate) as it takes for the normie to both run a household and maintain a career.
Tradwives are not housewives, they are a specific type of internet personality, and as far as I can tell the majority of them are not actually married yet.
This is based and tradpilled but the modern woman with a career and children is spending as much time and money delegating work and child rearing as a woman 100 years ago spent doing the same work herself.
I really don't know what you mean by this. Working outside the home is not 'modern', it has been done by non-middle-class women out of necessity since the industrial revolution at least. Even today most women who work outside the home do it out of economic necessity. Do you think the thirtysomething woman ringing up your purchases at Walmart is there because she wants to have 'a career'? Also, 100 years ago there was an equivalent amount of domestic delegation going on, if not more, just in different areas. Outsourcing of laundry, for example, used to be a thing, and it was much more socially acceptable to hand your children off to whoever could take care of them as soon as you could afford it.
I think you are saying that the tradwife is making a smart choice by staying home with the children after marriage? Possibly, but the point is that they are
able to make that choice freely because they are a privileged group LARPing as a non-privileged group. The type of ultra-religious woman they are LARPing as does not get to choose to be a housewife because she thinks it is cool to dunk on feminazis and post pictures of baking bread on Instagram. She is raised with no life skills or options other than to submit to a husband and produce babies, and that's what she does, whether she wants to or not. And most women who are 'spending time and money delegating work and child rearing' are doing it because they need money, or need health insurance, or their partner hurt his back and can't work himself anymore, or....
The proportion of women who actively 'choose to have a fulfilling career' is much smaller and entirely middle class, but for a lot of people (tradwives included) they seem to be the only visible group, because middle class people assume everyone else is like them I suppose?
There are over a million nurse's aides working in the US, with average wages of maybe $30,000 a year. They are almost all female. Do you think those women cleaning up shit and bandaging diabetic foot sores for $14 an hour are there because they are strong independent feminists who selfishly left their cherubic children at a daycare so they could pursue their high-flying career goals of cleaning tracheostomy tubes and taping catheters to 90-year-olds' penises? I wonder if tradwives have ever considered this.