No strawman. He said (being and experience are basically art) and (art is always subjective). That’s not about preferences. That’s a claim about reality itself.

Then he used quantum physics to argue experience can’t be duplicated, as if that proves meaning is subjective. He wasn’t making a narrow claim. He was making a universal one.

But even your charitable read fails claiming (there are no objective rules for what makes life meaningful or fulfilling) is like saying there are no objective rules for what makes a fish thrive. Try raising one outside water and call it subjective interpretation.

Either all meaning is subjective (self refuting), or human flourishing has no objective standard (ignores human nature). Pick one.