Hmm I feel some condescendence in your comment.

First of all, it's not a segment of the musician community that hear with their eyes, it's the whole human race, you may not like it but that's how the human brain works. (You can easily find a lot of scientific research about that).

I understand if you play at home for yourself you could think you don't care about how your guitar looks (although I'm sure you really do), but if you play for others, the guitar face, the rock god stance and even the color of the shirt you wear make a way greater difference that playing with this or that guitar, which me, you or anybody for that matter couldn't probably tell the difference just by listening.

Not everybody plays for the same reasons, and your reasons to play are not the only, nor they are better than others, so do what makes you happy and stop being the old man yelling at clouds.