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

Some vintage DD are not mid-low END.
For example, in 70x EMT950 costed 15000DM. It is around $23000 today.
Studios and radio station bought EMT950 and not moron audiophiles fooled by advertising.
These dumy audiophiles don’t want to see around. They don’t go to listen a live music.They don’t want to start thinking out of box. They buy tower speakers with 85dB sensitivity and 20K$+ price tug with 1000 Watt horrible sounded transistor amplifiers.
But everybody has his own way...

P.S. My fried musician, flute soloist, when he heared EMT950 (at his friend home), very fast rid off of his Sota and run to buy EMT950.

And a few very knowledgeable audiophiles that own several of the top
TT’s including EMT 950, prefer their heavy belt drive TT’s. Are they being fooled by advertising after owning and keeping these different tables, letting their
daily preferences rule ? I don’t think they are all flute players but we all have
our preferences, what you do at home is certainly up to you.

All modern Hi-End TT producers are small garage companies.
They don't have enough money and professional R&D to design and build DD turntables.
Relatively big Japanese producers like Audio-Technica and Technics can afford to build DD turntables. 

The question is: How much will cost the belt drive turntable which outperforms EMT950?

Yes I know. There are great belt drive TTs, like, Micro Seiki 5000, 8000, 3 motor Clear Audio, and others...
In any case, all people who use these best belt drive turntables listen records done using lacquer cutting produced by DD machine. :-)

It also depends from a preferences of a person.
There are a number of famous audiophile who can afford almost anything, but they prefer modified Garrard 301.

And Techdas and Micro Seiki before that are unable to build
DD tables ?  You make me laugh! Even VPI builds DD tables, when they want to. All design can yield excellent results when implemented correctly. You seem to be focused primarily on
what you can afford and have heard in your probably mid priced
system.