Rick, I like that analogy :-)
I certainly don't want to detract from Norm's achievement (or Taylor's) but my question is: Will DXCC and other awards now splinter and have 100 mode variations? Matrixed with power variations? How far should this go? I could come up with some new ones. There are millions of possibilities. I note that the one I've used in designing commercial microwave radios .. quadrature partial response .. hasn't hit the ham bands ... yet.
In contesting, I'm usually on the side of minimizing the number of categories. I see this in a similar way. How about having separate logging category for high speed CW vs medium speed, vs low speed? Or DXCC all on USB and a separate category for LSB and another for AM? How about DSB?
OK, I realize that's getting pretty far off the deep end, but I hope you see my point. Mode accuracy in LoTW isn't DXCC, That's also just an analogy. As a contest administrator (past and now again present), I see the amount of work involved in keeping track of all that stuff. Work is a four letter word.
73, Alan AD6E / KH6TU