Obiously.Which is not possible at that small (baffle) size, unless you implement something exotic like a cardioid bass. These are small 5" "shoe-box" loudspeakers and not meant or even advised by the manufacturer to be used outside of their nearfield (usually less then 1,5 meters) and if some people do they still do better than most typical similar sized hifi loudspeakers which show also a baffle step transition from sphere radiation to forward radiation at a quite high mid frequency. By the way most highly appreciated loudspeakers here like the various Revels, Focal, Elac etc also don't have very much lower transition frequency due to their also narrow baffles but still most people enjoy them a lot even outside their near field and even the Harman researches blind tests didn't show a different preference.
PS: That doesn't mean that I also don't enjoy loudspeakers too with a low(er) baffer step which I also prefer at higher listening distances but in the end everything is a compromise, see also WAF.
However, a speaker with classic collapsing polar with sudden and great swift in tonality so in high frequency has very little do to with high quality. Whether is called Revel, Genelec or Magico. We shouldn't praise mediocrisy. Heck, we shouldn't call this mediocre either. It should at minimum have a uniform directivity down to 700-800 Hz to be considered ok.
Audiophiles listens for most of the part at distances 2.7 m or more by the way. And close proximity doesn't help much in small rooms unless we're talking about highs.
No preference for constant directivity lower in frequency? That's can't be, considering how Toole's researchers show the importance of frequency response. And with uniform directivity lower in frequency, the in-room response is considerably flatter. That's simply a fact.