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>I agree! Taste is downstream of such things as design principles which can be described in objective terms

It doesn't need to be able to be described in objective terms to be objective, or rather to matter.

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> We can enjoy cup-of-noodles without conflating our enjoyment as being good taste. I like a lot of things that are fairly trash.

Agreed. As someone who watches an embarrassingly large number of isekai, I'm not going to drink from a public water fountain and call it a pierian spring.

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Taste is downstream of something, but I very much doubt that it is design principles.
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