Takedown of pricey servers, streamers OCD HiFi guy

There's very little logic in high end audio.  It's luxury goods driven by emotions.  The scenario you are laying out has been repeated endlessly.  People without the necessary funds to play the game questioning others' expensive toys.  Why even bother bringing it up?

To the OP, you can buy a watch that will keep accurate time for $20, or you can pay $20k for a watch that also keeps accurate time.  Pride of ownership is a powerful consumer motivation.  The expensive watch will look and feel really nice, but it won't keep better time and that's entirely besides the point.  You don't have to spend gobs of money to get good audio performance, but the best will cost you serious coin.