I never looked through that comment thread before. Jeez, I'm surprised how extreme some of the arguments get.
The whole "subjectivist vs. objectivist" thing going on in the headphone world reminds me a lot of the sabermetrics vs. traditionalists in the baseball world. Baseball analysts and fans still today will get in heated arguments about how people don't play baseball using a spreadsheet and how they need to use their eyes to see what is going on and not care about whatever WARVORPOWHIP is being used. Sabermetricists argued that a lot of what they were seeing with their eyes and what they felt was true was just chance and luck at play.
After a while, baseball reached a relatively happy medium where most people and analysts seem to agree that you can use statistical measurements alongside observations from scouts to best determine how good players in baseball are and how much to pay them. Hopefully, the headphone audio world at large will reach that level of maturity soon.