Why is most everything remastered?

I‘ll never forget the experience aeons ago when a friend brought his spanking new MoFi copy of Sticky Fingers over for a spin. We waited with baited breath for the needle to hit the vinyl and then……whoa…….we both looked at each other - was the stylus clogged with gunk? had the amp settings been changed? Nothing untoward detected,  so I put my old British pressing on the platter and gave it a spin. Instant relief - there was real life in the music, we had greater clarity, bite and proper dynamics - it sounded like a proper rock and roll band was playing,  The MOFi pressing was sanitised to the point of being insipid and anaemic.

Proves you can butcher things just as effectively at half speed as you can at full..

yes, but what about the MUSIC ?

I just love reading all the pre release publicity on a lot of these remasters telling us how the originals have been enhanced in so many ways, followed by the gushing reviews from the you know who neophytes,  It‘s just one big publicity machine in action getting us to buy something twice.