Lighten up, Clint and Guest, BI expressed his view of such music and I guess that he was looking for others that might be similarly minded. Instead he got the probing challenges - "why do you think that?" etc and ended up defending his position, which he doesn't need to do. It's just a view.

BI, there are many who agree with you; in the Mudcat community probably even a higher %ge than in the real world. But not the majority, by a long chalk. Now, as to why the majority prefers to be "stretched in other ways", that's a big subject and any number of opinions could be valid. My own view is that it's a mix of what they have readily available on offer (pap), how far they are prepared to go to seek out something different musically (or in art generally), how they are taught to appreciate music (or not) in their education system and by their families and peers, and how much they trust the media that bombard them with advertising. Little in the world of commercial music happens accidentally. The only spanner in the works of big (music) business have been Darkness. The rest follows recipes.