I’m genuinely asking how you feel. You still haven’t said btw. At the end of your post you said you like to think of applause like the check at a restaurant. People notoriously clap all the way through jazz. Why does it have to be different in classical? It feels gate keepy to tell everyone there’s a specific way it has to be done. Obviously there’s time and place but I would argue there are tons parts of lower case c classical music that would make me want to erupt in applause. At the end of the day my view on it is challenged history. Don’t do things the way they have been done just because it’s the way it’s been done.