No, I'm saying that under the assumption of no collapse, the scenario with N machines after a long period of entanglement requires that nature "stores" (has discernible state for) information proportional to e^N bits about this region of space. The prediction is the same, the question is what does it say about how nature is constructed and how does this relate to the credence we give the theory.

I think you just highlighted the fundamental difference between a bit and a qubit