I don't agree with him what he says about 3d printing of model parts. It's just another medium the artist uses.
I agree with your disagreement.
He's way off base with that and frankly I'm surprised since he owns every tool in the known universe. Ironic.
I'm pretty adept at wrangling something into shape, but trust me, I can sculpt Oddball in a fraction of the time I could sculpt a symmetrical shape like his goggles. And in a thousand years I could never sculpt even close to a perfect sphere, but my cheapo home made 3D printer can do it all day long.
You can take his logic down the rabbit hole: 'Oh nice model, did you use your shop full of the best tools available? Because I used a hand saw and sandpaper.' 'Oh nice, you used a hand saw? I used a rusted utility knife and a rasp." 'Great work, I found a tree branch shaped like a Neptune and rubbed it on rock until it was done."
I really like his work and appreciate what he does, but I never understand when someone disparages another approach, especially while calling it art. It's all art.
Personally I suck at 3D design and will never put the time into learning it, I am a hands on type, but as you say MP, it's just a tool. I'm astounded by what a 3D designer can do, just like I am by a scratch builder.
You can carefully plant a garden and use everything in it to make oil paints to paint that garden and hang it on a wall for people to admire for hundreds of years or you can sit at a computer terminal and make a billion people think a X wing is attacking a Star Destroyer, either way, it takes talent and it's art.