Protecting the dropouts

BTW, there's no confusion on my part over the difference between personal vanity and a mindset that would let preservation of /// form impede lifelong function.

I suppose the conversation really pivots around what we consider that desire to preserve form (or to covet/create/preserve that form) over function to actually be.

My point (not made here very well if at all) is that the gravity/pull towards form is functional.