Well, yes, but I thought that we’re all smart enough to know that here and I didn’t have to qualify my statement with “In the scenario that the recovery partition would be useful, a Windows ISO would be equally as useful to the task at hand.”

I’m imagining it went something like

“Hey boss, should I set the Server variant to not install the recovery partition?”
“Why?”
“Well, kinda pointless isn’t it?”
“Yeah, but like, not hurting anything, and do you want to risk breaking something? Because I don’t”
“Yeah, fair point”

Eh, kinda, but a Windows Server ISO would be equally as useful.

I recommend against that last one heavily