"Genera" have baggage, and I argue this as well. They do not mean "clade,"
...but they should. That would make a lot of things easier.
Taylor argued that, arbitrarily but based on Linnaean precedent, elevating a "subgenus" to "genus" was the useful thing at this point
No, Paul had already done that. Taylor only resurrected that genus from synonymy.
Because there is no _science_ inherent in the Linnaean System -- that is to say, in the Popperian sense, it makes no disprovable argument -- its value is reduced. I argue that it becomes art. *Giraffatitan* is art, and so is the "genus." We can also argue about _species_ being art, but that's slightly different (and again because it's laden with baggage).
That's all true. The argument is that *Giraffatitan brancai* is better art than *Brachiosaurus brancai*.