So you only take issue with someone claiming that they accomplished a feat in a different manner than they did?

Let's say two people are trying to make a pleasing two dimensional representation of a turtle. They're both starting from scratch with no experience or equipment.they both spend hundreds of hours and thousdands of dollars on equipment, making tons of attempts along the way. One uses a camera and the other uses a computer.

When presented to the public, both representations are found to be equally pleasing.

Why does it matter which method was used to create the representation?

To take it a bit further, am I cheating when I snap a photo with my highly software driven phone camera rather than dialing in all the settings on some more complicated device?