I agree, and I don't think this is a particularly hot take; if you've been working with camera systems, you've seen calibration without explicit calibration rou

I agree, and I don't think this is a particularly hot take; if you've been working with camera systems, you've seen calibration without explicit calibration routines get better and better over the past few years. For critical imaging, you still want to calibrate, but the gap between explicit calibration and "implicit calibration" (just using your subject matter) is definitely getting smaller, and quickly.