In the opening, the OP said out loud that ...
It is really hard to get nuance across in a single sentence so I really am happy when readers take the time to digest the entire paragraph. Of course no one types things perfectly, and hard thoughts often require multiple drafts to craft well.
My apologies for the confusion but overall I stand by the entire paragraph, as a whole:
We need to reject hard-to-drive speakers as being Hi-Fi. Too many of us want our speakers to be as demanding as we are with a glass of wine. "Oh, this speaker sounds great with any amplifier, but this one needs amps that weigh more than my car, so these speakers MUST sound better..."
I realize that there are technological marvels which may be very hard to drive because of the way they are stretching the state of the art. The legendary Apogee ribbon speakers are probably the best example I know of at 1 Ohm resistive, and if that’s your thing go get some.
My complaint is more about the machismo that hard to drive speakers are naturally better sounding, and more hi-fi than speakers which meet their spec, and stay at 4 Ohms or higher. Of course there are great sounding but hard-to-drive speakers as well.
I’d also like to point out that there’s a sub-thread here about high efficiency speakers which is not mine, I take no responsibility for those statements regarding efficiency vs. sound quality.