Why the anger and bitterness?
Not angry. Not bitter. Not even all that insulting. Read it again: "overthinking, shooting own foot, not seeing forest for the trees"
These are all symptoms of a lack of perspective.
A pretty common fault, when you think about it. Alex Honnold, the only man to free solo El Capitan, when his fiancee asks about furniture looks at the bare floor and says, "I could sleep right there." Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize in Economics, says breaking windows adds to the economy. Its just awful hard to get real close to one subject and yet still maintain a healthy broad perspective.
That being the case, to the extent you draw attention to it, how's that anything but good?
tube amp designers know that good sound is the result of a well-balanced design, not distortion specs alone.
Well-balanced. That is indeed the key.