"if you're leaving artistic choices in the hands of someone else and aren't building your computer, DAW, and semi-conductors from scratch, all on your own, you're not much of an artist"
my point is that you're depriving yourself of good art for an arbitrary moralism. just as ridiculous as saying "i'll never listen to a singer that uses compression bc the artists i listen to MUST have perfect dynamics (even though this has zero impact on the final product)"