Thank you for the thoughtful questions! All of the above!

But I think we have practical limitations, given the current world we live in and the views and beliefs of people.

As an example, take "crop deaths" – they obviously MUST be eliminated – and we do have the technological means to achieve this (vertical farming, etc.)…

However, we live in a global society in which most people think there is nothing wrong with killing an animal for a sandwich, so I think it's important for us to have a hypothetical solution for issues such as this.

I think eliminating crop deaths is a non-starter for our current global society.

But let's say we fast forward X number of years and we have 20 to 30% of the world who completely avoid all animal products. I think at that point, eliminating crop deaths will no longer be a non-starter.

Then on wild animal suffering… I think that's even more of a non-starter. I think even discussing wild animal suffering is so absurd to the average global population that it has the chance of preventing any individual movement towards going animal-product-free.

But yes, I absolutely believe that wild animal suffering is just as important as human-involved animal suffering. You sound like you're already familiar, but for reference: https://wildanimalsuffering.org/

I am an incrementalist because I believe that rapid change is usually catastrophic.

However, thankfully, I think that the slow and steady adoption of veganism/animal product-free lifestyles is happening "slow" enough for people, markets, policies, etc., to adjust without causing major catastrophes.