Your post say the obvious and mask (voluntarily or not) the essential....
The obvious: any end result in audio come and is commanded by subjective perceptive experience yes for sure...
The essential:
Any process of education of our own taste and biases and experience is about the incremental CORRELATIVE process of subjective evaluation AND measures and objective eexperiments in engineering AND especially in acoustic sciences also...
as most audiophiles understand audio, and in particular audio performance, is ultimately a subjective phenomenon;
And comparing your threads question and formulated opinions which if they are contested could only be contested by witches hunters and cancel culture people is to be kind a completely exagerated opinion and to be less kind a twisted turn of the mind explanable only by your hidden motives... I dont know which one explain your post...
Cancel culture is the 21st centuries book burning.