That is the point of the paradox, it is to highlight the fallacy. The fallacy is to assume a binary when there is a continuum.

The hipster example: When does stubble become a beard? At some point the hair gets long enough to be considered a beard, but when does this happen?

Just because there are two states at the end, doesn’t mean that there are two states from a continuous observation point of view. There is a difference between showing a million people one picture each of a bunch of pictures (taken 10 minutes apart) and asking “stubble or beard?” And asking one person every 10 minutes “is it a beard yet?”