Just a thought! To what extent does Virtuoso Playing actually inspire? By most current definitions, a virtuoso is someone who plays beyond the level most of us could hope to reach.
Don't we get more inspired by the thought that we might be able to reproduce what we hear?
Maybe "tricks" which make us sound more clever players than we actually are will mean we continue to practice, and in doing so actually learn enough technique to then improve beyond?
Quack!
GtD.