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I'm saying I had a system that wouldn't take a charge and was making horrible noises. I had absolutely no idea when the compressor had been replaced (if ever). The only way I could diagnose the horrible noises would be to charge the system to reproduce them. I made the call to replace the compressor (Which ultimately didn't go so well, since the replacement failed even worse) because it made financial and labor-cost sense to me. In my case, it made sense to replace the unknown part with a hopefully good part. That didn't work so well, but there's no way I could have known that the new compressor would fail so rapidly (I've since returned that compressor). I've spent a lot of time repairing parts on this car to save money vs buying new parts, including parts that are not supposed to be repairable, and really I just wanted to get the car back on the road in a timely fashion (any time I'm not driving the car, it's wasting money since I keep it insured).
I'm definitely not saying you should or should not have done anything. In fact, I admire that you've gone through so much work to test every component of your system, and I'm looking forward to comparing the results of my "replace ALL the things" methodology vs your "test everything" methodology.
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