Yes but your estimated wait time is … 3 hours and… 22 minutes.

I think you mean less functional replacements

Seems you’re the one who doesn’t understand what a rhetorical question is. Hint - it’s not what you retrospectively call a question when you get called out on your laziness.

Nor is it rhetorical when you ask a question and then spend several lines going on about it, and making it clear that you really did want to talk about an answer.

Can be, but isn’t necessarily.