FWIW, I thought the bit about manifolds in The difficulty of alignment was the strongest foot forward, because it paints a different detailed picture than your description that it’s responding to.
That said, I don’t think Quintin’s picture obviously disagrees with yours (as discussed in my response over here) and I think you’d find disappointing him calling your description extremely misleading while not seeming to correctly identify the argument structure and check whether there’s a related one that goes thru on his model.
FWIW, I thought the bit about manifolds in The difficulty of alignment was the strongest foot forward, because it paints a different detailed picture than your description that it’s responding to.
That said, I don’t think Quintin’s picture obviously disagrees with yours (as discussed in my response over here) and I think you’d find disappointing him calling your description extremely misleading while not seeming to correctly identify the argument structure and check whether there’s a related one that goes thru on his model.