I think about this a lot, and in my opinion it’s less about a non-ambitious perspective" and more that the mechanism of reddit skews closer to social media than discussion forums like Audiogon and the Hoffman boards. There’s a stronger impulse to seek validation around here than there is on other discussion boards, so you get a lot of people who want to look like experts who justify their gear using whatever methods they can instead of just enjoying what they have. Combined with the generally younger demographics reddit attracts, and this is the result. A bunch of people who hold strong opinions based on what will get them the most validation, not on anything that they actually agree with or enjoy. Then someone comes along with a budget they can’t compete with who just shares what they have, and people get downvoted or told that they bought snakeoil products and should just get a Topping stack and some Genelecs instead.