"Quotation marks indicate that a real human has ever said it verbatim." "Meaning it's fully decided. it's settled."
"The Quoted text is the one source of truth, rephrasing it is entirely banned in favour of simple ref's"
A > block-quote is not.
Neither is anything unquoted.
Both are written by whatever drafted it,
and stay in flight until
a quoted line settles it with higher authority.