Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
One of the things that I always found weird about production forums is the absolute obsession that a lot people have with individualism. Any question about "how do I make this sound" or "what's such-and-such doing with the drums here" gets met with a barrage of people who believe, contrary to literally the entire history of music (and probably art in general tbh) that you need to craft every element of everything you do free from outside influence and based only on the pure light of your individual creative spirit or your music will be worthless and derivative.
You're right, that's a bizarre attitude. Just to take a purely probabilistic approach in considering (say) the unimaginably vast total phase space of possible snare sounds, the chances of any given random combination of parameter values sounding any good is pretty small. So if you find a combination that sounds good, there's an overwhelming likelihood it's been used already, and probably not just once, but by hundreds of producers on thousands of tracks. And if you go out of your way to use a sound that's never been used before, then maybe you're going to get incredibly lucky, but there's probably a good reason it hasn't used before, because it sounds uninteresting or simply bad.