I like the link he gives to that Periodic Table of Tropes image, complete with actual "molecules" used to describe certain works. It just seems so weird, looking at fiction like this. I get common elements is a major part of fiction writing, but has any writer actually been successful by mapping out his story with a bunch of bullshit jargon set up in a list?
Not per se. Frederick Forysthe was well known for such such well detailed story outlines than all he had to do to write the actual story was to add some expository dialogue linking it all together, and wrote decades before TV Tropes was even a concept, but even that is nowhere near the concept of troping as most actual tropers use it.
Me, I don't think you can write a story like that at all, based of a jargon list, simply because as any writing class will teach you, you need to have some fleshed out ideas you can add to until you've got an actual story at the end.
A list of storywriting buzzwords is about as useful as a mad libs generator: It gives you a vague idea that might be a sensible starting place with a bit of development, but it's not really a great starting place for well developed thoughts.
Tropers don't seem to understand that, especially on TV Tropes. Yes, identifying the tropes is useful, but instead of actually learning anything from what they classify in order to re-apply it to their own work, they instead think that the classification process is the learning, when it's merely gathering the research materials together so you can then do the actual learning.
Hence all the idiots who unironically speak trope terms in real life and think all you need to do to make a story is do is the writer equivalent of a Nora Reed style spambot.