With onion you get a rather different thing that looks like an open TCP connection, a couple of levels up the protocol stack.
Strictly an Onion address yields you a _real_ TCP connection to your SOCKS server, ...
It's certainly a virtual circuit, but it's not a TCP connection because the endpoints aren't IP addresses.
The Onion addresses aren't making a "protocol switch", ...
Really, they are. You can't do a DNS lookup on the address, there is no A or AAAA record with an IP address to which you can open a TCP connection.
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