Why the hate for mcintosh amps?

Sorry to say: but I don’t like McIntosh : I mis the “feelings” of natural sound.
25 y.ago I did like it: what they changed in that decennia, I don’t know:maybe , it isn’t  completely handmade anymore , other engineers … a lot of people  using the same kind of speakers: B&W , Wilson, S.Faber……no, not my stuff.  I prefer VAC, Ear, Wavac…

Wow!   Too many strange options.  Never knew so many hate McIntosh?  I think most think Mac owners are a bunch of snobbish pricks.  Some probably are but most are just fans like myself.  Not for all but for this older audiophile, they are still the pinnacle of sound to me.  

There is a high-fi dealer that has been trying to sell a new McIntosh C-53 pre-amp for months on Audiogon .  When I asked him why his customer traded in this new model so quickly, he replied that people buy Masc for the blue meters but performance in not always that great.  I duuno.  My firtst "audio level" Mac product was the very versatile MAS-6200 integrated amp. To my ears, it sounded fine, very fine. I now have a MA-6900 integrated and have been pleased with that also. The only difference in SQ is when i moved several times and my room acoustics changed. Now on the advice of an Absolute Sound reviewer, I'm look at the Benchmark amp and intend to use only the pre-amp side of the Mac.

Don't shoot the Messanger just stating facts - in my experience over the last 25 years in being in the AV industry every time a Private Equity company purchases a product that has been manufactured with Soul and Passion it ceases to have the build quality. If you know how a PE makes money, it's plan is to recoup its investment in 3 to 5 years from the purchase date. Think....How can they do that ? Find a way to make it cheaper and open up distribution... Shocking ? Who sells your beloved Mac now ? BB ? You can find it all over the net ... Go back in time and research how many great companies ( Fosgate, Levinson, Boston Accoustics, Infinity, Warfdale, Denon, Marantz, Pioneer Elite, Sunfire I can go on and on)  that were purchased by PE and where are they now ? Mac has weathered the test of time because it still looks great and it has a loyal following in the Asian market. I'm not saying its a bad product just not the same product that got its reputation when Frank McIntosh started the company in 1948.