Well, that's a little unfair. Most of our counterfactual opposition is dead. But you don't fight the dead ones, or often even know their names; you fight the ones who aren't.
Maybe! I don't claim my thoughts are entirely logically cogent, I am primarily providing a feed of how these things make me feel, and then running that through a filter of "okay but how to convey that to others".
Conversely, if we ran you at low-res, then you would be long dead. You wouldn't even have made it out of the Swamp, considering that Mari's intervention was a consequence of high-res focus on you (and Keiko as your teammate). The same is true if we'd abstracted your survival to a few dice rolls, as genin missing-nin with Zabuza on your tail. To say nothing of being singled out for recruitment by Jiraiya or running across a recruitable sealmaster in a random forest.
Sure, I'll grant that, but this is getting into the weeds a bit, isn't it? There's a reason I said "a certain degree" there. I do not claim that that is a knockdown argument of any kind, just that there's -- stuff in that vague area worth thought and conversation.
The thesis of my post was "It benefits us sometimes for others to be low res but I present the world-changing things we've done at high res and could do more of if people around us weren't". Like, as a related example
1, when we asked Jiraiya to provide us seals or jutsu to think about on our way around doing spy stuff, he did not. Would we have come up with some skywalker-tier innovations from such? Who knows! Probably not, though. But we might have come up with something. See also, tower seals, the times we've made trade deals with other clans for their stuff, etc.
And again, I am fully aware of how spoonful producing these kinds of content is. I do not deny that it is a lot of effort, and I appreciate all that you and our other QMs have done. However... the case remains that not getting access to these kinds of things sooner means that we lose out on the unknown compounding advantage that we might have otherwise. And the same is true of other friendly clans and even enemy clans (with the Iron Nerve being what it is).
1I do not actually think this is a
proper example for a number of reasons
2. This is meant to gesture in the direction of what I'm talking about, not be a real example. A better example would be the tower seals. Why did I use this one? Mostly because I like reminiscing on things in this quest because I love it a lot.
2Jiraiya is smug, has plenty of reason to defend his own view of himself after having been shown up by a kid who can barely make a modified storage seal, and it would be politically inconvenient if it got out, to name a few.
