Hi ,
I agree.
As you know, I know well Philippe Camoin.
I'll try to give my personnal and subjective comprehension of his TdM.
I repeat that what I'm writting now engages only myself and the way I perceive Camoin and his restaured deck.
The modern Camoin Jodorosky TdM is an attempt to reconstitute what could have been the Ur TdM.
In fact, Camoin as the heir of the Conver, considers himself as the last and true representant of the corporation of the Marseilles confrery of cards - masters.
So, after having studied for years since his adolescence the different TdM, and after having received transmission of initiatic knowledge from his ascendant(s) (analogy with the "Tour de France" made by the "apprentis" going from one master to another to be initiated with the technic of their art), he finally has made his "Chef d'Oeuvre" : the "restaured" TdM.
Camoin and the cineast tarologist Jodorowsky are convinced that each card master received a piece of the Tradition.
Using the images of the Compagnonnage, each TdM was a kind of "chef d'oeuvre".
The "esoteric" signs you discover when reading the deck are their "intelligence" of the quest of the Ur TdM.
For Camoin, the Tarot is Alive and reveals Itself : each authentic card master expresses as an artist his intelligence of the revelation of the TAROT...
Maybe what I've written will be interpolated.
Yet, even I think that I am right in explaining Camoin's "specificity" , I still hope that my capacity of understanding and explaining his "démarche" doesn't mean for others that I am in complete agreement with his passions or repulsions.
Alain
PS
Now, this written, I agree with you that for the "users" of his TdM the ambiguity you noticed can be quite misleading...