  Dijets observed near midrapidity in high-energy nuclear collisions result
from large-angle scattering of low-$x$ partons (gluons) within projectile
hadrons as a signature manifestation of QCD. Within the same collisions it has
been claimed that hydrodynamic flows (radial, elliptic and "higher harmonic"
flows) carried by a dense QCD medium or quark-gluon plasma (QGP) dominate the
observed hadronic final state. The flow-QGP narrative is imposed {\em a priori}
on primary particle data, and of all possible analysis methods a subset A that
seems to support that narrative is preferred. The present study explores an
alternative minimum-bias (MB) jet narrative -- quantitative correspondence of
MB dijet manifestations in the hadronic final state with measured {\em isolated
jet} properties. The latter incorporates a different set of methods B that
emerge from inductive study of primary particle data without {\em a priori}
assumptions. The resulting system of methods and data manifestations is
represented by a two-component (soft + hard) model (TCM) of hadron production.
A survey of methods reveals that type A tends to discard substantial
information carried by primary particle data whereas type B retains almost all
information in both primary particle data from nuclear collisions and from
isolated jets. The main goal of the present study is a review of MB dijet
contributions to high-energy collisions in small and large systems relative to
measured isolated-jet properties. Representative analysis methods from types A
and B are compared in the context of MB jet manifestations. This study suggests
that at least some data features commonly attributed to flows actually result
from MB dijets and thereby challenges the flow-QGP narrative.
