It is funny when trying to discuss any subject with nuance how many will misread the intention or position of the OP (i.e. me).
I’m not saying measurements are not useful, I’m declaring what makes them useful is when they serve the purpose of enhancing my sensual experience. The hierarchical order is what I am trying to point out, not a tyranny of one and absence of the other.
Listening to music is my pleasure, much like a meal. It is not my job. It is not a mathematical exercise in assembling very expensive components together so I can accurately see the color of Jupiter’s moons.
Given the recording chain, the variable fads in recording and reproduction over the decades, and the near impossibility of 2 speakers reproducing a complicated soundfield I don’t believe accuracy at the listener location, or even neutrality, is possible. I do not experience sound like an oscilloscope or measurement instrument. I will not put them on a sacred platform as to why or how I choose my gear.