I think we are diverging around the fact that photography is a multi-purpose process, it can be used for a lot of purposes in a lot of different ways.
We have mentioned before that when discussing what is, or isn't a "good" photograph, the first question needs to be, "good for what".
Although, there are obvious reasons to use painting and drawing as a point of reference and comparison for photography, I often think that in terms of the process, the written word (the art of writing) may be a better comparison.
As with photography, there are clear technical constraints (number of different words available) and you need technical skills (putting the words in the right order), and without thinking about it, we know that assessing the value of shopping lists, personal diaries, campaign slogans, technical manuals, romantic novels or poems, all need different approaches, because they all serve different purposes and we need to be aware of this purpose.
However, regardless of purpose, as long as you have something useful, valuable, or worthwhile to say (and I include shopping lists), the better your technical skills, and the more words you have available, the more likely it is, you will say what it is you want to say.
Sometimes, assessing whether someone has made a "good" job of saying something will lie with others, and sometimes, it will lie entirely with the author.
And, keeping with my shopping list example, "TP" might be enough for me to remember to buy tooth paste (good for me), a list written by me for someone else might need "toothpaste" in full (good for others), and "out tubes white you stuff squeeze of " might not be of much use to either of us (not good for anyone), even though it uses seven times the number of words, and has taken a lot more time, effort and skill to write.