when mixed with a bunch of other stuff, everything sooner or later gets difficult to tell apart from everything else

the thing is, you can tell apart the super forms and you can tell apart the single-gene BPs and it holds true for some combos as well. so its different morphs.

sure, there will be combos where you can no longer tell it apart, but these exist for different genes as well. one drastic example: super bamboo, bamboo lesser, bamboo mojave and bamboo mystic all look absolutely identical. but if you dont know what it is from the records and pairings that produced it, you can still prove it out and figure out whats inside by breeding it.

that being said, the one in the picture, could be black pastel or could be cinnamon. i really cant tell. but this is only a problem when in the genetics of both mom and dad combined, both cinnamon and black pastel are present. if the breeding records do not reveal it, breed it to anything that doesnt have cinnamon or black pastel in it, and the chances are really good that you get some hatchlings that confirm one or the other. lesser/butter has a strong influence, but if you breed it and one of the hatchlings is a single-gene of cinnamon or black pastel, or you hatch a pewter or black pewter, you will know.

with genes that really are the same, thats not possible. once you mix them, you can no longer tell them apart. when you mix lesser and butter, you are lost in the woods, and probarbly end up calling them all lessers. or butters. when you mix lesser and mojave, breeding will allow you to seperate it out again.