@kwf I remember long ago having an apartment with a textured ceiling. I don't remember what tall thing I had been carrying, or if I was annoyed by damage by a prior occupant, but I spent at least half an hour with spackle and a regular screwdriver slowly creating replacement texture, one dot a time, trying to fill in randomly to make it look right.
Or, more recently, a faux-wood-grain door was damaged. Again, spackle, and then after it set, minutes of scribing matching faux wood grain lines into it...