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I mean at this raw of an argument you might as well argue for Lysenkoism because unlike Darwinism/Mendelian selection it doesn't "put things in boxes". In practice things are put in boxes all the time, it's how most systems work. The reality is that as communists we need to mediate the negative effects of the fact that things are in boxes, not ignore the reality that things are in boxes.
The failure of capitalism is the fact that it's systems of meaning making converge into the arbitrage of things in boxes. At the end of the day this is actually the most difficult part of building communism, the Soviet Union throughout it's history still fell ill with the "things in boxes" disease. It's how you get addicted to slave labor, it's how you make political missteps because it's so easy to put people in a "kulak" in a box that doesn't even mean anything anymore, it's how you start disagreements with other communist nations because you really insist that they should put certain things into a certain box.
I'm not arguing for anything and did not suggest that putting things in boxes is good or bad, but that it just is what we do.
And that these models just do the same, but with more abstraction.