[MAzevedo]

Well, I think you'll find that most folks with years of experience aren't using saturation plug-ins as a general thing. I think you'll find a fair number of folks going to tape or using tube gear or gear with colorful transformers as a tone tool, but even then probably not hitting things especially hard. This feels a lot like the dozens of threads about "How do you use multiband compression?" and when there is a chorus of people saying "I don't, generally" it gets treated like folks are being evasive.