[jerf]

Sure, it's misleading, needs a lot of "interpretation" doing a non-trivial amount of the lifting to make it map to anything in the real world, mismatches things that happen in the real world while leaving no room for other things that happen in the real world a lot, and will lead anyone who tries to use it to understand the real world deeply astray, but it isn't always wrong about absolutely everything so it has some non-zero "utility".

Fine. It's not wrong about absolutely everything all the time. It isn't bereft of all truth. It's just something that is of net negative value. I see no value in insisting on trying to "rescue" a net-negative value model of the world.

I suppose you could say ultimately I agree with you though. The OSI model isn't useless. It's worse than useless. You're better off trying to understand networking from basic first principles than through the lens it provides.

[devman0]

Analogies are rarely perfect, that's why they are analogies. The OSI model isn't intended to be perfect and yeah there are a lot of details that leak between layers, but is also expected, any non-trivial abstraction is always going to be leaky. That doesn't mean it useless or absent of value in discussion at appropriate levels.