>> In the lace seller scenario, no deal means keep the status quo i.e. remain.
> No, it does not mean that.
Yes, it does mean that. In the lace seller scenario, you have some money in your pocket, the lace seller has some lace. No deal means that you fail to agree a price for the lace that you can both accept. You walk off with your money in your pocket, the lace seller keeps their lace. That's how you both were at the outset, before you even tried to reach a deal. So the status quo is preserved.
On real Brexit, rather than analogies ... it seems that the No Dealers are trying to arrogate Leave voters to their own position, when it would only take two percentage points of those original Leave voters to feel closer to Remain than No Deal and we should, democratically, not be leaving at all.
Despite that, a campaign of lies and deceit, only 37% of the electorate voting Leave, and now 3 years down the line with all that has happened in between - and still I'm prepared to leave. What I'm not prepared to do, however, is leave with No Deal. That is not what the majority voted for. Of course what I think makes no difference, but it's probably a fair reflection of how some of the Remainer Tory MPs see things - Brexit OK, grudgingly, No Deal? - no thanks.