Nice analogy with the diamonds, considering how they’re value is derived from scarcity. But to me, cores are more akin to De Beers suddenly declaring rocks have value. It’s arbitrary. I get the duality, however. Making cores a cost of infusion is like paying for a donkey with diamonds. It devalues masterworking, aka the bling. And, while I won’t see them as a real resource, I can see them as a commodity, but a derivative one. Infusion makes them subprime. You’re ideas would make them grade A.