YES and NO!
Not everything can be judged by the tech, BUT neither can you trust your ears. What you like is totally subjective and opinionated at best. Most people have never had the opportunity to sit on a stage with a live jazz band or in a parade with a drum and bugle corps. So you end up with people talking about things being too bright, when all they are noticing is Probably their first experience of hearing a trumpet as it sounds live, or noting the difference between a Steinway vs a Yamaha grand piano. The Tech is there to give you a starting place to visualize what you are hearing and is not meant as an end-all. Also as noted as time goes on, the industry will find more and better ways to present music to our anxious ears to hear.
Anyone going to extremes on wither side of this argument is less than truthful and making uneducated comments.
Everything matter in the audio chain. Tests prove it!
For your education or entertainment.