It sounds like you’re saying that transfer learning is helpful for image classification, which seems like an uncontentious position.

Are you really arguing that you think transfer learning would be useful from handwriting models to turbine failure models?

Using techniques that are successful with image classification as an example and generalizing to other domains that don’t look much like imaging seems like a stretch to me.

But perhaps I’ve missed some more convincing examples of the state of the art in transfer learning.