Counterpoint: the idea that points should be made with vague symbols, cryptic allusions, and obtuse subtlety is literally a CIA op that's given generations of artists brainworms and defanged their work into a more cooptable form. If you have a point it should be written in bold print on a big mallet, the face of which is also a stamp with the point engraved on it, and you should whack your viewer in the face with that mallet until the point is literally embedded in their flesh, and only then will even the smallest percent of them actually get the point. Anything less than that and you're not trying to make a point, you're trying to look clever to an in-group of trained analysts who still need the point explained to them on the side which they will then pretend they figured out on their own to look clever themselves.