With respect to an otherwise reasonable point, the finest audio has a unique sound and, as a top-level reviewer said recently, a rather profound effect on the listener. That's not a factor in prosound and in my decades of experience, many engineers simply don't know it exists. In fact, many engineers - suffering that technical superiority thing - actively deny it exists. And back we go to opinion over substance.Find me a studio that uses any of this oligarch stuff. That is the point of creation. That is what the artists sign-off. Chances are these days it is a very nice big pair of ATCs, MEGs, JBLs or whatever. I’ll take that as my reference point. Proper sound engineering minus the bling, and attainable for a large number of people too.
As much undue harm to the reputation of very advanced components and systems has actually come from a not-insignificant sector in professional audio where assumptions about how things work outweigh how things actually sound. The same is true for a rank of audio theorists, and of course, designers too. In that way there is no philosophical difference between professional and private practitioners.