While I don’t disagree with what you said in principle, being able to fall-back to TIA for removed/deleted images would probably solve the issue 95% of the time.
> The user you’re replying to asked how to solve a practical problem and you responded with philosophy.
If you never apply your morals you may as well not have them. Not to mention that overusing a free resource might cause it to be restricted in the future
This is a social network. This sort of conversion is not just allowed, but encouraged. Perhaps you’d feel more at home on a Stack Exchange website, where like-minded individuals will stand alongside you in enforcing a strict Q&A format, even when it doesn’t make sense to.