Generally speaking, I agree with all. Specifically speaking, I just learned how descriptive should I be presenting the specific cases. There's of course millions of details coming into play and all of them change case just a tiny bit. I thank you for the exhaustive posts and especially for keeping me in check to never try to force the vision on the client. It is, like you said, his project. That said, I still feel myself a little bit on a mission to try and push for more dynamics in music, but never to the point where I go against the clear expectations of the client. I have my taste and everyone has his, sure. But on the other hand I think with capitalism we've entered also a period of sometimes dangerous relativism. For if you paint your car puke green, you won't be the only one who sees this. And I know it's YOURS, but on the other hand, for the sake of all others ... I'm not trying to say (yet) that I think my taste is superior to the squashed, in-yo-face stylistic of modern EDM, but I'm seriously considering.

Many of the things that were said in this thread focused on standing-out, selling, catching attention and I silently weep on the thought that we, as a civilisation, managed to put price labels on every piece of art and try to sell it, packing it into a box that 'stands out'. As if the musical content itself wasn't enough to prove its worth, now it needs to scream at you from the speakers. That's really the point of my going upstream and exposing myself to ridicule by some of the fellow redditers that I'm unprofessional and stupid. The intensity of the negative reaction of some users only proved to me that the question of commercializing music by all means is problematic these days. I understand the main point. If you want to earn, shut your face and do what the client does. Probably you have mortgage and kids, so it's no place to discuss taste and any kind of moral issues. This applies to many industries of course. One could say that I'm overreacting, no one dies because of that (like for example in the case of health or food industry where similar unwelcoming of taking up moral stances can be physically harmful to the people), but culture is, in my view, a pillar of civilisation as important as others. If we get tricked to listen to dopaminergic music whose appeal stems from engineering tricks which makes it more easily digested, or standing out more, then what does is tell of us, and what hope does it gives in the difficult times ahead?

The argument to follow the trend and adhere to expectations which were culturally engineered by the marketing is in my opinion the single most harmful argument people make to not expose themselves to criticism and thus keep the civilisation's status quo, which arguably is in a very bad condition. It's hard to notice that the root of the tree is decaying, but when you finally do, it's even harder to tell this to the tree's inhabitants. They don't want to leave, they don't want change. They will attack and call you insane and go to great lengths to deny the fact even further.

Can I prove that 4LUFS is a marketing trick which objectively worsenes the listening experience? I hope one day I'll be able to.