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What's the technology level of kappa?

You've got the underground fusion reactor (though I'm pretty sure it only works because Okuu exists and would be useless without her), kappa themselves can make submarines, cloaking devices, all types of shit. Outsiders certainly don't have cloaking devices, so wouldn't this mean Gensokyo has a higher level of technology in some fields?

And yet, in SSiB, Ran mentions that the Kappa and Tengu are only "halfheartedly mimicking" the Outside World. Hatate says in her AFiEU interview that the average smartphone has video recording that far surpasses anything in Gensokyo. Things like oil heaters, which we've had in the Outside since at least the 1920s, are considered the "latest" in home heating technology in Gensokyo, even by the Kappa. Aya also states in AFiEU that Gensokyo's technology is no match for the Outside World's, so what gives?

And even with the Kappa around, Rinnosuke still isn't able to figure out how to operate many of the things in his shop. Did he just never think to ask the kappa or do they not know either?

>>42711007
>take a look at the society of tengu and kappa on the mountain
Ran says this is because they only halfheartedly imitate the Outside World aka the humans
>the mansion of the vampires
Just an imitation of the mansions, wealth, and concept of "snobbish aristocracy" invented by humans
>the village of the onis underground
Alright I'll concede this one

How technologically advanced are the kappa? I recall Ran saying in SSiB Chapter 3 that the kappa and tengu were only "half-heartedly mimicking the outside world", so I kind of assumed they were below our tech level, but then they apparently have cloaking devices, a Loch Ness monster-like submarine that can shoot lasers, a dam (or at least were working on one in WaHH? Did it ever get finished? I don't remember much about it), etc., all of which imply technology either equivalent or above the outside world's tech.