Sorry, but you are just reading too much into that image. Everything you list is just a function of contrast adjustments and where the birds (point sorces of heat)) happen to be. The clouds have just as sharp edges.
You may play with contrast as long as you want on a blurred image(s), you cannot revert it to sharpness.
Clouds are distorted, don't take them into account because i shifted the entire frame in order to overlap the object, so the background is messy, only resembles reality. Only the shape of the object is centered and stacked from multiple photos with "multiply burn" between layers.
You clearly are ignoring the fact that overlapping multiple frames with the same object resulted in a clearer image. This would be impossible if the optics would be out of focus. (The Hubble couldn't be fixed by software also it could make repeated exposures to the same object)
I think everyone here can see the facts ads up in favor of a solid object.
Blurred dots cannot explain why image got crisper after stacking (stacking is an astronomy technique). Also cannot explain different thickness of the wings nor sharp angles from the tip of the wings.
MY CONCLUSION
You are in love of blurred dots, it's your reputation in stake and i suppose i will have a ban for saying this but i already invested too much time in a cause that is not mine.