That's "just" more statistics though.

Are you good in math definitions or is this an opinion?

For me a compressed model learning rules through statistics is not statistics anymore.

Physic rules are not statistics.

Of course they are. Force has a strong correlation with mass times acceleration. Objects at rest have a high chance of being observed to remain at rest. And so on.

Statistic is not the same as constant equations.

The equations were discovered by experiment and curve-fitting.