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I haven't really seen the case being made here that the category art is useful beyond being a tool of oppression.
we have to validate non-art things to break them from seeking the label as validation.
elegant game rules or an ikea table or a video poker machine not being art doesn't diminish the worth of those things, and convincing someone those things are art doesn't elevate their worth.
The designers of IKEA furniture are often pretty highly regarded. The furniture itself is like a postcard you buy from the museum gift shop.
Game rules are an interesting case because copyright protection for game mechanics is very limited. And it would be absolutely disastrous for the industry if there was strong IP protection for IP rules. This comes from ideas not being copyrightable.
Of course IP is not the same as art but I think there is enough of an overlap in how bourgeois society decides what is art and what is original work.