I saw nothing stupid nor controversial. Good informercial for the intended demographic target. This is all old men talking silliness in their old mental church's religious audiophile perceptions.
"Who buys JBL?" Quite a lot of people; especially young people that buy Bluetooth devices. I just love it when an old elitist "audiophile" (in his mind) says crap like this.
Silly, but Like 10 years ago, I wanted to get a true "audiophile" pair of speakers to upgrade from my JBL L 890s and went to listen to B&W 803s. We're talking around $16,000 at the time vs $1200. Silly, but although I could tell that the 803s sound was better than my L890s the difference wasn't worth the price of the B&Ws. The addition of a second subwoofer more than cured my "want" to upgrade my system and made my overall sound "good enough" to keep my "lowly" JBLs.
I have two daughters in their 20s still living at home, I see and know how they respond to audio. It tells me that the day they're on their own place they would want a decent sound source from were to play/listen their music. Something uncomplicated. JBL would meet their needs, that's for sure.