Heartily agree. There is such a thing as attention-seeking poncery but it’s not unique to beer: you can find it expressed through almost any product (popular music, as you say, is heinously guilty of it). I wonder where all those Belgian and Netherlandish monks, quietly (literally in the case of Trappists) making fruity beers for centuries, fall in the O’Neill Weltanschauung? Are they sneering at ordinary people? I’ll muse on that as I eat dry cornflakes just to prove I’m not better than the common folk.