Is this question a cynical joke? Or just being asked by a thoroughly uniformed listener without much in the way of logic or understanding of humans , music or the quest for our personal audio nirvana? Probably just a miserable soul with thoughts of conspiracies in every aspect of life. Am I getting warm?
Are audiophile products designed to initially impress then fatigue to make you upgrade?
If not why are many hardly using the systems they assembled, why are so many upgrading fairly new gear that’s fully working? Seems to me many are designed to impress reviewers, show-goers, short-term listeners, and on the sales floor but once in a home system, in the long run, they fatigue users fail to engage and make you feel something is missing so back you go with piles of cash.