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> Objectively speaking, you end up exactly the same way you started.

Absolutely not.

You end up feeling you're unable to explain x86_64 instruction set you just saw and understood not only to your fellow tribesmen gathered around the campfire and waiting for your trip report in a language which lacks even a remote possibility to explain that, but even to yourself.

Yet, the knowledge of the fact of seeing and understanding persists.

Not everything in real life distills to a programming analogy.

My point was about what you can or cannot know depending on how much you can inspect. It could have been anything else the example.

The insight is not into either state but toward the relation of the states.

Exactly, the metadata is the key to encrypted data.