In other words, you're an admirer of Bob Stuart and allowed yourself to be suckered by his bullshit.I have zero commercial relationship with MQA. I do consider Bob Stuart a professional colleague and one of our luminaries in audio. Show disrespect to him in that regard and you will motivate me to speak up.
I also think PCM format is very wasteful. And that a perceptual coder which reduces bandwidth requirements especially when it comes to high-resolution content very valid. And having a layered format is good even though it does reduce efficiency.