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IDK who needs to hear this but stainless steel is a relative term. It still rusts eventually, especially if it gets wet, triply so if it gets salty and wet. If you're making, say, a truck out of bare stainless steel, you should probably put some paint on there.
We were not painting trucks this whole time for purely aesthetic purposes. Sorry, "skipping the paint" does not qualify as "disrupting the auto industry."
@slick@kolektiva.social@sidereal Specific alloys are designed to withstand certain elements, environments, and stress better than others, say food/brewing industry or marine or automotive; like a DeLorean, bare stainless was the intent. Downside is repairing. With steel you can patch panels, add body filler then paint, but stainless is a whole different beast.
I'm not a metallurgist but have done a fair bit of working with and welding stainless.
Paint fades, get scratched (if deep enough can allow underlying material to oxidize), and does need general maintenance...same as (some) stainless alloys.