Pretentious elitist and inward looking
While SSD and his mates are sitting in the bar of the flying club drinking second rate lager and eating pork scratchings taking about intracasys of the Tiger moths slow roll rate the PA28R pilot is south of France with wife sipping a sharp white wine and eating lobster.
Aircraft are for going places and seeing the world, the stable predictable nature of the PA28 so derided by SSD is a real asset when you have done four hours IMC flying to get to the sun of the south of France.
The post war British aircraft industry built aircraft for the likes of SSD and failed to survive, the American industry built aircraft for people who wanted safe transport and is survived dispite the best efforts of the blood sucking lawyers.
If you build for the mass market you can also enable your industry to build specialist aircraft due to the volume of parts production and the availability at the entry level to aviation, build aircraft that have "sole" as SSD says and your market is a few old farts in the flying club bar........and half of them can't afford to fly the thing you have built !