I'm not sure how you're disagreeing? You're making the arguement both sides can have elements of the others, which was literally my point, that you're almost never going to find people at the extreme ends of the scale where there is literally no planning or literally everything planned.
And if whether you outline or not is the only tthing you consider important, fine, but what counts as an outline or not? That's why I consider it a sclaes.
I've very rarely met a person who sits down to write a novel with literally no ideas for characters, plot or world and just said "hey let's wing it" although it is more common to see someone with binders and binders of wolr dbuilding, character sheets and plot points that they never waiver from. I think the idea that you're one or the other probably fuels people trying to "prove" their style is better. If we're accepted people study and learn in different ways, why don't people accept people write in different ways and how you do it will likely be somewhere on a scale from "hey let's wing it no idea" to "I have literally everything plotted out".Some things you might plan, somethings you might discover. And often a mix of the two is useful since pantsers often have better characters and flow but a problem with pacing and endings and planners often end up with stiff characters and transitions but goot pacing and solid plot that doesn't wander. Some people like some outline. Or, like me, I like to know where my endgoal is, that's not really an outline, but it's still a plan. And what about people who have a plan but then don't rely on it?
This is why I consider it better to think of it as a scale. Because I see too many push their own style, pantsing or planning as the only way and you're only one of the other if you're at the extreme ends of either no plan or all the planning that you stick to rigidly. Neither is perfect, and it's fine for people not to fit into the extremes. Especially since pushing the extremes rather than a scale can make people feel like they don't belong in either conversation. The amount of times I've been told I'm not a pantser because i have an end goal and a few ideas for plot points so get out of this channel of the chat, that's a plan. But guess what, I don't have an outline, just a few jotted down notes of an end goal and some maybe plot points and a lot of winging it, so that's not an outline so I don't belong in the plotters chats either.