I'll tolerate using mics to make acoustic instruments heard in a large room or at a festival...and I'll tolerate 'some' pick-ups for special circumstances...(I've seen fiddlers that simply couldn't stand still when they played!)...but once you start plugging in instruments that were designed as acoustic, you are probably playing music that I don't like anyway, so I'll stay home.

(Fortunately, I know some nice musicians who play in living rooms, and go to several festivals where there's lots of jes' plain playin'....)