to clarify:

"It is hard to miss the point that those who value reviews are... well.. oh I don't know......
Reviewers?"

Well, funnily enough, some people choose to do something because they think there's a value to it. I imagine if you wanted to have a debate about the societal value of music, you'd probably hear from a lot of musicians.

Funnily enough, musicians are critics and vice versa. (Making music is itself an implicit act of criticism: I choose to play this way, not that way etc.)

The nuances some people are attaching to the word "reviewer" on this thread are really quite bizarre. As if writers were somehow different to any other human being with a pair of ears. As if expressing aesthetic likes or dislikes is not something we all do every time we say that a song is good, or put a CD into a player.