My hunch is that you wonder what frequency shall be found stamped on the crystal's package? Falstad's simulator supports a crystal modeled very much like your diagrams. A sample circuit is found in the menu by navigating to Circuits > Mosfets > Cmos Crystal Oscillator.
Exponential decay respectively increase time constant is the outcome of harmonic oscillator transient solution. The author lazily "skips" respective equations.
It's electric engineering basic studies stuff. Continue post #1 "natural RLC circuit response" equations by deriving time domain solution.
The author mentions the critical transconductance to oscillation where the dV/dt =0 of the envelope. Yet no mention of how loop gain accelerates the envelope to saturation or the bias delay time to make the feedback amplifier operate in linear mode.
The feedback R and load C controls the inverter DC bias RC=tau value.
The series R controls the L/R envelope startup.
The gm or RdsOn of the inverter gate affects the gain and time constant of the output which is faster than the input with gain to reach max envelope first.
Which envelope rise time is significant for settling time? L/R with the external series R is the most significant factor and also is recommended to reduce Xtal power dissipation often rated at 50 uW.