OK, so turntable perfection does not appeal to you, since it precludes involvement, which is important to you. I get that. I do wonder though what is it that compels someone laying out a quarter of a million dollars on a turntable. Of course, no doubt such a person does not need to budget. But, I would hope this person is also a hobbyist philanthropist.
In my experience, it's not so much "someone laying out a quarter of a million dollars on a turntable" so much as these things sell to corporations involved in the industry in one way or another. Maybe a record company, maybe a company involved in audio in some way. Think functional sculpture rather than someone's home audio system.
There are odd exceptions where some well heeled person ... I hesitate to call them "audiophiles" as they probably aren't ... buys one just because they can. Also, products priced in these stratospheric levels don't sell in quantity; we're talking twos and fours, rarely dozens and I would guess never hundreds. Some of these products that we read and hear about are considered successes if they sell just one. Ever.
It's not something we mere mortals need to concern ourselves with. I suppose that's why I don't really understand all the criticism; it's not something I would buy, even if I could easily afford it, and even if I honestly believed it to be "the best turntable in the world". I don't need the best turntable in the world to enjoy music.
Even if I did, I honestly don't see any cartridges in the market that would justify the turntable purchase, there is a discontinuity there, and there are some pretty pricey cartridges out there.
Finally, I know for a certainty that you can get world class state-of-the-art turntable performance for way, way less than 250 large. It's not that perfection isn't important to me, it actually is. But not with turntables simply because the entire vinyl ecosystem can't ever be perfect. The nature of the beast. It's an inherently imperfect medium, and I am OK with embracing that imperfection, with appreciating and truly enjoying it's quirks.
If you're chasing vinyl perfection, you're deluding yourself and will never be satisfied in my humble opinion. It's just not possible with that medium*, and perhaps more importantly, not possible to a degree that the rest of a modern system, for the most part, doesn't have to concern itself with, because the rest of the system, loudspeakers excepted to a degree, actually can and justifiably should seek perfection, if only because a modern HiFi, even one of relatively modest cost, can get so close.
So the product doesn't even justify itself as a performance piece. It's jewelry, and should be seen as such. F Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote "the rich aren't the same as you and me".** I'm OK with putting these products where they belong, which is not in my (or if I may speak for the members here, our) world.
* Pressing plants can't even guarantee they can place the centre spindle hole in the centre of the groove radius. They can't guarantee it because they can't do it. They can come close; that's your "precision" benchmark and it makes speed variations beyond some rather large fractions of a percent inherent in the medium. It only takes a few hundred dollars worth of electronics to make a turntable platter spin at hundredths of a percent accuracy. What is the point of further precision? To what end?
** " ... “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. ..."
-F Scott Fitzgerald, 'The Rich Boy', 1926
