Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege?

I can attest to the current crop of higher end belt drive TT using speed sensing devices to feedback to the speed controller so operating in a similar fashion to top end DD tables.

A friend has exactly that set up on his table.

How slow this system will react to speed changes to adjust itself!
IMHO it is a very bad engineering.

Really?
Unless you know what model I am referring to intimately( which as I never mentioned, would be impossible) that is a statement you cannot and should not make.
IMHO of course.......

'extremists' answers your own question. I usually cross to the other side of the street.

In 70x the best most talented engineers worked in analog electronic industry.
Today best engineers work in Hi-Tech. Most of modern audio engineers are morons.
Modern main stream hi-end went far away from live music sound to virtual synthetic sound that doesn’t exist in real live. 

Dual solved the "direct drive" problems back in 1975 with the 701, just as Harry Pearson was "finding" it in the Technics turntables at the time.