I just tried posting but I’m not sure it went through, so I’ll repost it in short.
CS, your post on p32 doesn’t answer the question, and it just trying to confuse us with words. It seems it was successful in convincing you, but that’s about it.
Either the buttons have not been polished, in which case your rebbe was wrong, or they have been polished but Hashem has changed the rules.
It just doesn’t make any sense.