Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-32744161-20180513194903/@comment-47205-20180513213854

To clarify: if you disconnect the taxonomy project from resemblances to real-world taxa, the entire system becomes nothing more than placing different types of body parts into an arbitrary ranking (in your suggestion, mouths come first for phyla, then integument/wings come second to define classes, etc.) and then sticking creatures into different branches of this system based on which combination of parts they have.