Your ignorance does not make my answer incorrect.
Microphone/Acoustic Capture: Non flat frequency response. Placement rarely where ears would be. Sensitivity pattern nothing like the human ear. Result - no flat and will not pick up full harmonic content as would be experienced normally of instrument due to placement and pattern. Closeness to instrument (typically) means no atmospheric attenuation
People who determine what is on the recording: Hearing totally variable from person to person, even day to day. Even the amount of ear wax impacts their hearing frequency response. Mood, alcohol, etc. can impact their relative like of frequency balance. YOU don't hear what they do, so you have no clue what they intended.
Speakers / Listening Room: It is not yours, so not only do you not perceive what the person who made the record perceived, but you can't since you don't have their speakers or their room.
So even ignoring that a frequency anomaly in one component can correct an anomaly in another component
- the lack of capture of the full harmonic content in many recordings due to the recording technique, can have partial reconstruction from distortion. It won't be accurate, but it may give a more pleasing rendition
- there is virtually no way to know what the person who created the record intended, since you are not them, and your equipment / listening environment is not there's. What you consider an "error" in the playback hardware may create a condition closer to what they person who made the record perceived.
- Virtually no places we hear music are dead silent either.
There are aspects of common preference that purely are due to an enhanced "richness" which humans tend to like and that explains why adding distortion and noise often increases listener satisfaction, but there are other aspects that may purely simulate, even if not accurately, what may be for some people the characteristics they most familiarize with an equivalent performance, which for them, is objectively more accurate.
And before you say someone is promoting self serving crap, you may want to find out if they have done research (academic) on the aspects of preference in audio / music reconstruction and the use of non-linear signal processing and noise to recreate perceived missing content. Or not.
@aj625