Well one problem is that alot of people like scooped sounds when they're playing by themselves and then will get drowned out the instant anyone else plays.
Especially in heavy stuff people are obsessed with it, the amount of people I've seen at gigs that put their Jazz (which sounds pretty inherently scooped) with their bass and treble boosting pickups into a SansAmp (which is a very scooped sounding preamp) then add some more bass and treble and knock up the presence (which is very clicky sounding on that unit and barely seems to add anything lower then the treble control anyway) and then stick it in their amp - of which they scoop as well - then wonder why they can't hear anything properly cos all their tone is is a muddy distant sounding fundamental cos of the overdrive, and there's an obnoxiously high pick noise which is proper harsh from all the overdrive going on that too.
