You're raising a good point about how "best" is defined.
If you ask most people, they are by definition more likely to connect with broadly disseminated cheap knock offs than they are with whatever 'legit' inventive underground creator, simply because they've heard the former and not the latter.
Just a mental exercise: If you ask 1000 people if they prefer Knock Off or Original, and 900 say Knock Off, which one was better? If the answer is still Original, by what metric do we measure quality?
If you ask most people, they are by definition more likely to connect with broadly disseminated cheap knock offs than they are with whatever 'legit' inventive underground creator, simply because they've heard the former and not the latter.
Just a mental exercise: If you ask 1000 people if they prefer Knock Off or Original, and 900 say Knock Off, which one was better? If the answer is still Original, by what metric do we measure quality?