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The reason why you generally don’t use quarried stone when you can use concrete is that concrete has very consistent properties that can be manipulated with production and building techniques whereas stone is unpredictable in lots of conditions.
That can be overcome but suddenly you’re dealing with the builder equivalent of woman_surrounded_by_math.gif and the next person who comes by to check the work has to be that too.
When you do it with concrete you can very easily make sure you’ve got a predictable material and when someone wants to check your work there’s a million simple pass fail ways to do so.
If I were building a gravity battery that was designed to be around anything I would run screaming from block.
Everybody’s gangster against concrete till u gotta build something that might fall on a persons head.