Do you shame people for their choice of materia melds?

[Dogempire]

if you or anyone isn't doing Savage content while its current, your melds are nothing but a preference and make little to no difference to your play.

While technically true, materia adds a LOT of stats to a player. If you have normal blue quality equipment you have about 18 materia slots, or about 1080 to allocate to any stat you want.

This isn't even counting the savage accessories and i460 items with extra materia slots, and the fact that if you pentameld an item you're getting an extra 100 at least to any stat of your choosing, and 160 if it's an accessory or belt.