I shudder to think what the answer to this will be, but… How do you propose this should be done?

Exactly this. I still use a 0.4 nozzle and the results are more than satisfactory.

These figures were all support-free designs by EC3D, and are a joy to print.

At 0.08mm layers, you can feel the lines with a fingernail, but can’t see the from more than a few cm away.