I used to be the same and care a lot about objective comparisons but I realized when I just listened to those I usually regretted my purchase. For me personally, the subjective things like feel, design, UX are way more important so that's why I now prefer anecdotal opinions because things like UX can't really be measured.

For example the Fiesta ST was car of the year and very highly praised by critics, but when I test drove it, I felt nothing. I instead preferred a car that was much worse but for whatever reason I liked it and in the end isn't that what's important?

Or why you think Marques should in any way be compared to Anandtech given they serve completely different purposes. MKBHD is a fun, light hearted Youtuber designed for a quick watch often whilst you're doing something else. Anandtech is a multi-page, detail focused review where you often need to block a half hour to read through. The two simply aren't comparable.

> it’s entertaining to watch MKBHD thought.

I watch very little video, broadcast TV nearly gives me hives listening to their anxious desperate voices, but do not mind an occasional Marques Brownlee video. Actually kind of soothing ...

I can't help but frown : the anandtech review really rubs me the wrong way when it starts with a long benchmark.

Unfortunately benchmarks are an extremely poor simulation of real life workload and have indirectly contributed to extremely poor devices by making OEMs very tempted to optimize their devices for benchmarks and not for real life workloads.