That old baking trick has a way of showing up everywhere once you notice it. Start measuring your coffee grounds by weight instead of scoops and the morning cup hits different every single time. Same goes for seasoning food to taste versus following a recipe's exact pinch of salt. Small shifts in precision stack up fast, whether it's dough or dinner.

Ditch the layout lines and just let your chisel follow the scribe.

Might be from their humidity control packs breaking open.

You hit it right on the head with "out of sight out of mind." It's the same reason people will dump old furniture on a back road or toss fast food bags out the window in a parking lot. They just don't want to look at the mess they make, so they shove it somewhere nobody will notice. That part about lazy people driving out there on purpose is dead on too. I've seen piles of trash in places you can't even find unless you're looking for a spot to dump stuff. It really is a shame, that pond probably had frogs and fish in it before it turned into a garbage pit.

I heard once that people connect more with the imperfect stuff because it feels like a conversation, not a presentation.