The people on this list care but in the \u201creal\u201dworld a high quality collection of note for note samples in a dedicated machine could go a very long way...
I totally agree. The thing that has (to my ears) torpedoed samples is the fact that they are always being meddled with.
EQ. Tuning. Interpolation. Noise reduction. Normalisation.
They all wreck what would otherwise be a piss easy job to do. You're right. People just want the sound. So why meddle with the sound if that is what people want?