Rediscover Communication

A similar debate rages among guitar players... and can become rather extreme at times. People spending literally thousands of dollars to buy some tube-triven tape echo machine made in the first half of 1968 because it used the 6L6 tubes instead of the (gasp!) 12AX7 tubes in the later models, that people can claim to sound "brittle", whatever "brittle" sounds like... People claiming that guitar cords have a polarity and that they can only be used in one direction, people claiming that they wear the blue shoes for better tone... And it continues. These people get EXTREMELY upset when someone challenges their perception of tone and look down their noses in the most annoying of ways at people who have less than a $40,000 guitar rig. I just laugh at it, because for all their analog "naturalness" everybody still uses the same old 16 bit 44.1KHz CD Audio that everyone else has been using since the mid 80's. It just gets silly.
Others talk about how few effects they use, like it is a contest or something. Who can have the driest signal? When you come right down to it, using an amp is an effect. Using any kind of a device to amplify, transmit, record, or alter your sound is an effect. cutting your picking nails is an effect.

At the end of the day, just go with what you go with. The music that YOU make is infinitely more valuable than the music that your equipment does or doesn't make.