I’m not pulling a fast one here, I’m sure you’d chuckle if you took a moment to rethink your question. “If I had a perfect replicator that could replicate anything, does that mean it can output anything?” Well…yes. Derp-de-derp? ;)
It aligns with my point too. If you had a perfect replicator that can replicate anything, and you know that to be true, then if you weren’t getting gold bars out of it you wouldn’t say “this has nothing to do with the input.”