Yeah, Julia's point about that snobbery warping what collecting should be about really hits home. I watched it happen with the whole 90s chromium cover craze, where suddenly a book's value was only about the shiny gimmick, not the story inside. It creates this weird gatekeeping where your enjoyment gets graded on a checklist you didn't even agree to. That pressure absolutely sucks the fun right out of just loving the characters and the art.