@mtbiker29 This has happened to many of us.
When one with no experience admires a high performance something and reads a litany of positive accolades by users, not knowing they too are mostly first time fan boy users with little or no experience, who've found by providing a positive review somehow lessens their poor decision remorse.
A product sitting between your speakers is exactly that something.
People are taking the time to offer you overwhelming advise that, what your calling a frivolity, should to be avoided.