Yep, that's my experience in a nutshell. It's like they're wearing some sort of anti-scale goggles that only allow them to see crudest (and least interesting) features of the model, like what brand of wheels you're using. Others (like the guy inspecting the lawn mower in my video) don't seem to see the model at all. It's like it exists is some weird other dimension.

Ansel Adams spent his entire photographic career fine-tuning his techniques for producing that he called a "fine print." For him this meant a higher level of technical and aesthetic perfection that started with a visualization in the field and ended with precise toning of the final print. But he admitted that most people can't "see" a fine print. For them it was just an ordinary black and white photo. They saw the "thing" in the photo, not the photograph itself.

There's a debate in the art world on so-called elitist art, where you have to have specialist knowledge to appreciate the work. For example, people might say this about classical music. You can't just "like it." You have to "know about it" in order to appreciate it. Other factions of the art world are violently opposed to this perspective and claim that any art that can't be appreciated by "your average joe" is just BS. I suppose "the Art of RC Scale" just falls into that same debate.