@version To your point about enabling elitist opinions by treating them as valid:
To be sure, by valid I don't mean exempt from criticism, I just mean exempt from being dismissed entirely. They had to have arrived at their opinion somehow, however diligently, under whatever circumstances, informed by whatever lopsided influences - but all opinions stem from the same general software, and their developments are executed in the same world, a world that is seemingly becoming increasingly homogenous.