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

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!

Most any company , big or small producing turntables could produce a direct drive table if they chose . Most companies don't produce any motors themselves at all  and outsource and use the expertise of the manufacturer to build to suit. Just because technics can do it in house don't think outsourcing couldn't find the same results. Its scary how narrow some people's views of business and ability are. The only question is...would you buy it at a cost like the 20 k the new technics is or 10 k and still need to build a plinth and arm....
So if your too cheap to buy that and opt for the 1000 dollar 1970's DD. ....why would anyone bother to invest what won't sell....that's the question not that they can't do it...