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Thanks and apologies, I was being careless when I said the proof "couldn't be right". It may be formally right, but fail to explain why we should use Occam's Razor instead of the Flubby Razor.
Yes a statement like "on average, X holds" needs to be quantitative in order to be useful in practice. Still, this is a valuable argument, especially as far as it clarifies what needs to be done to reach a quantitative refinement.