Which effectively gave her a method of precognition via her enhanced senses.
It's like saying "it's not fire manipulation, it's manipulating the concept of friction to a large extent to ignite the air".
It's effectively the same result.
I think you are missing vital nuance here, especially in relation to the conclusion you are coming to.
Pre-cognition in the formal sense means getting information from a "sixth sense" that either
precedes the actual event itself or the person's usually ability to otherwise sense said phenomena. This is important because it allows the user to react to said information prior to the thing that would typically be too fast for them.
That's not what Maki's doing. Maki's senses are so keen that her field of awareness has skyrocketed to level of being able to v
isualize the air currents in the atmosphere and has access to the information of the environment. This means that her amps are a direct result of her base sense being amplified, which is obviously what she utilizes to dodge/react normally, and we she treats Naoya like fodder subsequently. We saw a similar thing happen with
Toji and are explicitly told his
base 5 senses are just that good without CE.
He never struggled to keep up with his speed. He couldn't sense him. He noted that he was fast, but he couldn't sense his presence cause of his lack of CE.
Toji was certain he could tag him if pulled by Blue and that his [Toji's] speed was effective.
Yes he did, Gojos explicitly states "he isn't just fast" meaning
both the speed and Gojo's inability to track him were an issue. In fact, Gojo says this because toji literally
just escaped the pull of his blue with his
speed alone. This is pretty evident by Toji
flying around the entire area. Gojo has the six eyes which allow him to see through objects and
gives him clairvoyance over
vast distances. He also has blue to casually shinra tensei people, so the fact that toji was able to accomplish stuff with sheer speed, means Gojo was indeed struggling to keep up with his movements.
The anime makes this
readily apparent and also shows a moment similar to
Maki's awakening where she
becomes one with her surroundings and is given a similar speed amp/moment, further highlighting the similarities.
Nothing says he was moving at Mach 3 in that instance.
In order for him to move at Mach 3, he needs to accelerate through a ridiculous distance while expelling air out of his sides. We see the air that leaves his sides as he accelerates to Mach 3.
Not really
We see Naoya
turn tails and fly upward and away
exactly like last time. Kamo himself flat out states it's exactly what he did for the mach 3 blitz and we see the callback panel.
Next time we see him he is flying through buildings and
lamenting that he can't touch Maki. We even see the buildings being
passively damaged by the air currents which was a visual cue for the
initial mach 3 speed.
this is capped off by newly enlightened Maki learning that
Toji would have reacted to Naoya, which she then proves by ducking him
mid air at top speed,
to his own surprise.
He wasn't expelling air and he wasn't gaining speed by accelerating through a large distance. He was too busy running into buildings to tag Maki.
Nothing shows Post-Realization Maki reacting to Mach 3 at all. She reacts to the same slower Naoya like she and Kamo did prior to her realization.
I mean that's just no true and is pretty much completely ignoring the entire narrative established to that point.
Reacting to lightning hundreds of feat in the air is not an impressive feat sir.
It is much more impressive than mach 3 doe.
I think you're trying too hard here to just prove "the Mach 3 wall is wrong" instead of proving the issue we have wrong.
I did cover that above, and the mach 3 wall issue is indeed a huge portion of that. Especially when a goodwill arc Maki already has several superspnic+ feats and a hypersonic feat. That Maki is <<<<< Awakened Maki who is << Enlightened Maki. So the idea that speeds like Mach 3 are some crazy notion seems really inconsistent to me.
He gives her credit for withstanding the attack. Not for blocking it.
"I don't see damage from Nue. I guess she isn't easy to take down"
Correct, and given that Gege draws her blocking the attack, a portion of the impressiveness would be reacting in time to put up a defense and take negligible damage.