To understand even part of the debate you have to go back to early-mid '80s when it was Bob Bantz of Elusive Disc, Chad with Acoustic Sounds and Tom Port with Better Records. They invented the niche vinyl space selling OOP Audiophile vinyl. In short order it was clear Chad and Bob dominated the market, Tom Port branched off and got the DCC liquidation gig that lasted several years. TP spent the better part of a decade extolling the virtues of "remastered" DCC recordings and why they were superior to the originals.
What happened next is based on informed speculation, its when the DCC biz dried up TP started culling OOP used records that cost him next to nothing. They cherry picked the 'best' pressings of certain titles (aka Hot Stampers) already known for decent to excellent SQ, reselling them at enormous mark-ups. In order for this model to succeed you have to trash the work done by the reissue biz and people like Chad, Kevin Gray, Doug Sax, e al and reviewers like Fremer. All these years later, its not totally clear who threw first stone but the consensus is all roads lead back to TP and Better Records. Yes, there are bruised egos and for good reason.
