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From my amateur independent digging I actually found people fall into three groups on this, not two:
Aphantasia - Not being able to visualize 8at all*
What I consider "regular" visualization, ie a "minds eye" or "back of the mind" sort of thing, that's distinctly different from how you normally see visually with your eyes.
Prophantasia - In which you can visualize things that appear to you how simply looking at something would appear.
I saw someone on reddit apparently go from aphantasia to prophantasia but people were calling BS on them. I'm in group 2 myself and would love to be able to do prophantasia. So I'm curious if anyone has managed it?
Okay wait.
My time spent in a custom job shop wondering why people are such morons may have just clicked into place. I spent a few years of my life drawing things in CAD software for clients--most of the software I used created solids in a default bland grey. And some variation of the following conversation would always happen.
"Here's what I got."
"It's not going to be grey, is it?"
"...No, I'm going to build it out of wood, it'll look like wood."
"But it doesn't look like wood, it's grey."
"That's the computer model, I was focused on the shapes and dimensions."
"I can't see it unless it's brown like wood."
I spent the whole time thinking the world was just full of retrotards who went to business school for so long they literally can't imagine "This, but brown." You're telling me this is congenital?
I was an aerospace machinist in a past life and I'm aphantasic. Never was it a hindrance in me making parts. You were just having a conversation with an idiot, which makes sense because shops seem to hire a lot of them.