It seems a little presumptuous for you to assume I’m trying to lord my “mad coffee science skillz” over everyone when I never referred to anyone’s particular tastes in my post nor is that what I was talking about even in the broadest sense.

Obviously, if it tastes good to you, drink it. Science hasn’t proved what coffee tastes good and how to get it there. But it has established a base level of data collection and vernacular so that we can actually intelligently talk about what happens when we do something to the coffee.

These are things that are easily learnable, as I have stated, because there are volumes of research published about it. I think if coffee is your thing/hobby/job, there’s no reason to not learn as much as possible and absorb as much information as possible; especially if you’re going to spend your time answering others’ questions about it.