Yes that is a good comparison. Similarly, indirect use of handcrafted or no gen ai is impossible to trace / verify / do. You can’t handcraft each component for every tool you will be using. Similarly, you can’t write your own library / compiler for every software component.

Such a label will indicate only on a high level, ‘that technology’ is not used. Which I think is fine.

And that penalty was not deserved

Pff what an aggressive players

Really like how gothic is listed among fallout and morrowind