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>the author's pics are pretty awful but he doesn't have the eye to see it. //

But that's the authors point, or so it seems to me. That the majority of people can't see it. If you're showing your pics as a non pro to a pro then they'll probably find them terrible even if you used a large-format Hasselbad.

My interpretation is that it's about the essence of the image in most cases and not the actual technical detail of the image. The images we capture as novices are aide-memoires primarily and in the main. To a non-photog it rarely matters if the dynamic range is poor or there's a little aberration or a slight lack of focus or a bit of extra noise.

That said I often bemoan the lack of a faster camera, better flash, adjustable aperture, better lens ...