I'm fucking serious man. This ain't no high school "after school special". Some of my idols, men who were directly responsible for some of the greatest recordings of all time, new technology came out and either through industry pressure to adopt it or because they were so sick of the specific fidelity problems and inconveniences of the otherwise sonically superior gear they'd used to create what would later be called masterpieces, they succumbed to the pressure and sacrificed their ability to capture what really mattered. This isn't simply engineers from the 70's switching to the dark side later on (and I've coaxed some motherfucking rants from several engineers who told me with raised voice that fidelity stopped mattering in 1978), I can think of a handful of engineers who were great in the 90's who ended up partnering with Satan.
Nicholas