Go look at commodity home center cabs. They are most always assembled post-finish. The sticking is all complete pre-fin, panels are pre-fin, large radi' at the panel to sticking, There is a dark joint at the rail/stile striaght out of the box, for a reason. They have taken a cue from the NYW workshop of trying to hide a joint or celebrate the joint. Again, they control the offering and their customers buy it all day long accepting it as normal. There is rarely a display in the homecenter that I dont walk by that doesnt look like plastic cut and hot glued together.
I can drive a stake in the ground all I want looking for the last few stragglers who dont want that, or just walk away from residential boxes as a whole. You can have all the disclaimers you want and you as the maker will be held to a standard that the big boxes will get away with every day of the week. You could provide mockups, time tested mockups showing celebrated joints, and they would get a pass and you will be held to the fire.
Oops-- someday I'll learn to read more carefully!
knowing all of this before will save trouble no matter how you end up choosing to go. Thanks again my fellow woodworkers for the info/power!