You think the performance is better. I prefer the feel of ESP plastic. I prefer easily replacable discs. I dont think that 5$ are such a horrendous amount of money. Hence I prefer my ESP plastic.
See ? Subjective.
Why should I agree that's a fact when the only evidence you have is personal preference for disc attributes that don't matter? The evidence I have is that the discs are cheaper, last as long if not longer and fly as well if not better.
Well, as I showed above, how well a disc flies is subjective. How long a disc lasts depends only on how long you want to play it, ergo it depends on you and not on the disc. And cheaper is not always better, specialy if the cheaper product does not have some of the attributes you are looking for.
Hence your "evidence" is also nothing but personal preference. As I said before, there is no right or wrong here, but only personal preferance.
It all comes down to what you assume the desirable attributes are. In this part of the debate (high end plastic with multiple molds vs. one mold in cheap plastic but several stages of wear) I'm assuming people like discs that fly well and they like having money. Cheaper discs that last longer and fly as well if not better are objectively better. You get the good flight and more money. You're going to have a tough time convincing me, and most other rational disc golfers, that random attributes that either only apply to you, or apply to a small portion of the population, have any objective impact on the quality of a disc.
You just repeated what I allready didnt agree with in the part above. Repetition does not make this any better, so I will not do the same.
But I find it amusing that my desired attributes in a disc are random and only my personal preferance, while your deisred attributes are shared ( assumingly ) by all rational disc golfers and therefore objective values. I could do the same, and we could have a flamewar. But I prefer to try to stay objective where I can and clearly state if I only tell my subjective opinion.
All I wanna say is that there is no better or worse, that there are two radicaly different disc selection mechanisms behind this, and that we will probably never agree on this. We dont have to, either.
In the end, skill is a much bigger factor anyway than what disc you chose. I claim that I could probably play the same scores as now within two weeks of field practice if I were to replace all my midranges with Roc's tonight. I'd just have to go play on a street with one of them for a day or two.