If they take a thrashed machine, with missing parts and damaged main hardware, repaint it and make a "whatever" I'm OK with it. It is when they try to make a "beautiful" lamp by taking a beautiful machine as a base I feel that the term "upcycling" is a lie. The first example would be taking something with NO function and making it pretty and useful, the second is "downcycling" where they take something that is capable of a lot and reduce it to something less useful, for profit...