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

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.

There is a lot of experience and knowledgeable guys on this forum,but I wonder how many less the argumentative narrow views of a few have caused to no longer be as active.

Just this!

A lot is the answer in only the last couple of years to boot!