Exercise 3: What It Actually Takes to Get a Neutral Result From Midjourney — Possible Solution
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WHAT THE CHAPTER SAYS DIRECTLY
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Per this chapter, "getting a genuinely neutral, unstylized result on
purpose usually takes deliberate, explicit effort (a low --stylize
value, explicit style-suppressing language) rather than simply
omitting style descriptors and expecting a blank slate."

WHY OMITTING STYLE DESCRIPTORS ISN'T ENOUGH
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On a tool with a neutral default baseline, leaving the Style category
(imgai1-3) out of a prompt would reasonably be expected to produce a
plain, undecorated result, since there'd be nothing pulling the output
toward any particular aesthetic. Midjourney doesn't work this way. Per
this chapter's own material on its artistic bias, "Midjourney is
widely and consistently observed... to lean toward a dramatic,
painterly, highly polished aesthetic even when a prompt doesn't ask for
one." That bias is baked into the model's own default behavior via its
own curation/fine-tuning process (this chapter's own explanation) --
it isn't something a prompt has to actively invoke, so leaving style
language out doesn't disable it. The bias is there by default; it has
to be actively countered, not merely not activated.

WHAT ACTUALLY HAS TO BE DONE INSTEAD
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Per the chapter, achieving a neutral result requires deliberate,
explicit steps: setting --stylize to a low value (this chapter's own
parameter for controlling how much of that trained bias gets blended
in) and/or including explicit style-suppressing language in the prompt
itself. Both of these are active, intentional choices made specifically
to counteract Midjourney's own default tendency -- not the absence of
a choice, the way simply not writing a style descriptor would be on a
tool with a genuinely neutral baseline.

WHY THIS FOLLOWS DIRECTLY FROM --stylize's OWN DEFINITION
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Since --stylize's own low end produces results that "track the prompt
more literally" (per this chapter's earlier definition), and the
tip-box's own "red cube" example showed --stylize 0 producing "close to
a literal, undecorated rendering," setting --stylize low is precisely
the documented, direct mechanism for suppressing the bias -- not a
workaround, but the tool's own built-in answer to exactly this problem.

WHY THIS WORKS AS AN ANSWER
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It explains precisely why omitting style language fails on Midjourney
(the bias is a default behavior, not something triggered by style
descriptors), and identifies the two concrete, deliberate actions the
chapter names as actually effective, tying the --stylize solution back
to that parameter's own definition and worked example earlier in the
chapter.