I personally want to hear all there is to hear and what the original recording was to sound like. I know we can never know what the performance sounded like without being there but hopefully you know what I mean.

We can't know for sure what they meant but I'm assuming by simplify there must have been detail missing, this seems to be opposed to what our goal is to be. If you want music simple why buy better gear? Especially, why buy better gear to dumby it down with sub par cables?