I love all the CTE arguments that have occurred over the years.
People bashing each other and getting banned over something as simple as "seeing the shot" correctly.
CTE is ingrained into every good player's mind, whether they consciously know it or not.
If your mind didn't differentiate between what is the center of the balls, the edges of the balls, or the points in between, and then guide you to the correct contact points, you would never make a ball consistently.
To me, CTE, Perfect Aim, or any other thing you want to call them are nothing more than "visuals" and "perceptions" to get you to see the shot properly and then align yourself correctly in order to improve your chances of doing what you are hoping to do.
If you can't see it (consciously or sub-consciously), you aren't going to be able to do it consistently.
You will have people come on here and say they "don't have any sort of aiming system" and that is complete bullshit. Everybody's mind is a computer and it is processing information all the time, whether you know it or not. Your mind makes the calculations and tells you what actions you should take. Whether your body can follow the "instructions" is another matter.
Rather than totally relying on one's mind to sub-consciously induce one's body to do something, once the process is learned, people can enhance the "instructions" by "manually" reminding one's self before each shot. Use a "blend" of "manual" and "auto", if you will.
To me, aiming is easy. Seeing the shot correctly is harder than aiming. Depending upon where you are standing at the table, how high your head is, how your head is turned, etc., your eyes can be "fooled" into thinking you are "correct", when actually you are not.
How many times have people (even pros) missed straight in shots with ball in hand? Thousands of times, if they have played long enough. You would expect them never to miss after playing that long. It wasn't because their stick didn't go straight. It was because they "thought" they were seeing "correctly", but they weren't.
My two cents.