Maybe it’s an opinion to you, but when I listen to music I listen in a very quantitative manner. How many synths can I pick up and what are their pitches, what wave forms are they, what kind of modulation am I listening to, what other background effects are being used to fill out the drop, etc. etc. Maybe it’s because I have perfect pitch that makes it so easy for me to do quickly, but for me, music is less of an opinion and more of a fact of what’s there, what’s being manipulated, and how it’s put together. When I listen to Above & Beyond vs someone like let’s say Ilan Bluestone (who I consider to be real slept on), the differences in sound design and how they put multiple synths together to form a coherent melody are very clear and the differences in level and complexity of their production are also very apparent. I also have a lot of experience with Ableton and sound design, so my brain auto tunes to evaluating a song based on what I hear in terms of its production.