Studio monitors have a different purpose than “audiophile” speakers. Audio monitors present sound with the venue up fron (and are highly directional as pointed out above)… so very critical mixing choices can be made. The criteria is very different. Audiophiles are into the best possible playback focusing on musicality, natural sound etc. These are very different requirements.
I have a couple friends in the industry and installs Boulder and Mark Levenson in folks that want high end recording studios and stuff like Audio Research into audiophile’s homes as they want musical and natural sound.