> You will adjust without even realizing. […] This probably means
This might be true once in a while on very slow chords or the final resolving chord of a piece, maybe, but this sounds like assumption to me based on it being theoretically possible, and not evidence that it actually happens often. From experience, it sure seems like years upon years of equal tone muscle memory, from having to play with other instruments, is far more likely to dominate finger placement. Not to mention everyone being used to equal tone - having equal tone sensibility as to what sounds right. Sounding right in relation to everyone around you is still valid in 12-TET. Enharmonic micro intonations are almost certainly not happening during fast sequences, and because of that, the argument that it’s subconscious and imperceptible seems implausible - professional musicians absolutely would notice a change in finger placement depending on context, because of key changes, because of abrupt fast-slow resolutions, because of chords and arpeggios and situations where open strings are called for, etc. etc..
This might be true once in a while on very slow chords or the final resolving chord of a piece, maybe, but this sounds like assumption to me based on it being theoretically possible, and not evidence that it actually happens often. From experience, it sure seems like years upon years of equal tone muscle memory, from having to play with other instruments, is far more likely to dominate finger placement. Not to mention everyone being used to equal tone - having equal tone sensibility as to what sounds right. Sounding right in relation to everyone around you is still valid in 12-TET. Enharmonic micro intonations are almost certainly not happening during fast sequences, and because of that, the argument that it’s subconscious and imperceptible seems implausible - professional musicians absolutely would notice a change in finger placement depending on context, because of key changes, because of abrupt fast-slow resolutions, because of chords and arpeggios and situations where open strings are called for, etc. etc..