So I guess we agree ! - to some extent 🖕
I guess we are getting the finger onto the pulse ^here^?
Back to your twisted wires with the oversized insulators and also the cotton.
There is a lot of talk focussing on the materials and the geometry. It is possible that those affect the electrical parameters directly, and that one could talk about the parameters that are desired rather than construction.
It makes sense when we talk about a cake or a bottle of wine to talk about whether it is chocolate or Pinot, and not talk about the chemicals. But electrical things have only three things (resistance, capacitance and inductance. They are not like flavours.