Kagome isn't sure yet. Also, would you mind relocating the question out of your newly-canonized interlude? It breaks the flow a bit.
Glad to hear it. Personally, I'm still very much of the belief that this is a stupid and arrogant idea, that execution is what is valuable, with ideas having value only insofar as they enable or influence execution. Still, during the earlier discussion on the topic there were multiple people chiming in to support the "someone's brain state alone is worth paying for" and few or no people objecting, so I went with it.
I mean, people's actual arguments for Hazou's ideas having value is that they do a good job of enabling execution.
I disagree with calling Kagome's portion of the contribution 'grunt work', or implying that it wasn't critically important. But, back during that whole debate, given that Skywalkers
also needed Hazou to come up with the precise idea of what seals to combine in order for the execution stage to be possible, I disagreed with the idea that Hazou's contribution had been useless. Honestly, I made this whole massive wall of text about how thinking of things as either only execution mattering or only ideas capable of enabling execution mattering was flawed, and that you should instead think about which of those two things was missing before something could be done, and which was more replaceable at that time. I did come down on the side of Hazou's contribution to skywalkers being more of a bottleneck to getting flight seals than Kagome's sealwork, because there were many people who could have combined air domes with a chakra adhesion trigger, but none who had thought of the idea. But that was a specific position on one specific problem, not a general statement about the value of ideas versus the value of execution.
I might be remembering incorrectly, but I'm pretty sure you're the person who brought up the whole "ideas or execution, which one
actually matters" dichotomy in the first place. Before that, the thread was more specifically talking about Hazou's ideas about Skytowers and Skywalkers being valuable, and that those ideas showed we had a track-record for coming up with valuable ideas. I'm sure there were definitely some people talking about how execution was worthless. But I'm also pretty sure that a lot of them were just defending the claim that ideas could be valuable, and that more specifically those two specific ones had been. Thinking that that must mean the thread as a whole thinks ideas are the only valuable thing and execution is worthless is an inaccurate understanding of the thread's actual collective beliefs.
"Ideas can be valuable," is not the same statement as, "Only ideas can be valuable," or, "Execution is always and everywhere less valuable than ideas."
Honestly, I might be being too charitable to the thread, or just plain old misremembering. But I don't think so.
