The Big Peat
Darth Buddha
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Personally, while I try and avoid episodes of all-telling as per example 1, I'm happy to use the kind of part-showing or mostly-showing of examples 2 and 3 and I suspect that most readers couldn't give a damn one way or another.
I also suspect most readers don't care.
Tbh, when reading, I've got zero problem with 1 used pretty regularly, and the sentence I'd dislike most is 4 because it doesn't show enough for me to form a picture in my mind
And like Tobes above, I will sometimes finish a book and think it was a bit telly, but I do usually finish it.