I feel you are giving vintage gear a tough time. I use some vintage gear and can assure you that it has all the air, attack, timbral color, and transparency you could ask for.
Disturbing "Sonic Trend" showing up on SOTA audio
Exaggerated high frequencies and etch = "details"
Biting unnatural attacks = "fast transient response"
Unnaturally dry bass = "taut" and “tight”
This is what I hear at shows, homes, and stores, over the last several years!
Have "new" audiophiles lost their way, in relation to what "natural sound" of "non-amplified acoustic" music sounds like?
This "type" of sound is increasingly selling as current "State of Art".
Audio has more BS, and nonsense, than any hobby that I know of!
And as "Crazy" becomes acceptable, it drives more "Crazy".
I have been in this hobby since the 70's and heard it all.
Maybe those that kept their older systems, and got off the "marry-go-round", of latest and most expensive is best, are the most intelligent!