your thoughts on AFA ratings?

[Sky Shadow]

A majorly strawman argument here.

A straw man argument is this:

Do you realise you just effectively argued against the existence of museums in general there (as every single artefact in a museum was originally a commodity of some kind, even if it was just a brick)?

and this:

The problem with your argument is that you're looking from the present forward as opposed to the future back, and your entire argument here falls apart as a result.

and this:

In other words, we should avoid using items as evidence in court cases the moment they don't serve a function of being looked at in everyday life then. Considering that historical artifacts, or evidence, work the exact same way as evidence used in a court of law, that's exactly what you are saying.

You, on the other hand, are likening unique historical paintings to

a lithograph poster

Unlike La Gioconda or Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers or No. 5, 1948, Transformers and other 80s toys - like lithographic posters - are mass-produced items that exist in such numbers that there will always be ridiculous quantities of them, not unique items that need to be preserved.