If you didn’t intend to imply that, it’s on how you communicated, not how they interpreted it. The way you listed what each does implied you were saying that’s how their images worked.
You directly contrasted them. Refraction is obviously key to how lenses work. So it seemed to me like you were saying that diffraction is key to how pinholes work. 🤷
I didn’t say this, you did. You’re chasing your own tail.
If you didn’t intend to imply that, it’s on how you communicated, not how they interpreted it. The way you listed what each does implied you were saying that’s how their images worked.
You made a parallel sentence construction:
You directly contrasted them. Refraction is obviously key to how lenses work. So it seemed to me like you were saying that diffraction is key to how pinholes work. 🤷