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They did a blind test on this a few decades back. In the saddle, weight is the only difference between the different steel tubings, that the rider will notice. So you're basically paying $4500 extra to save muh grams and to flex on poors.
And yet per the official forum lore, the guy on the $1500 carbon road bike with 55psi tires is an uncomfortable performance-obsessed status fred, and the guy on the $5000 italian weeaboo meme steel antique with 190psi medieval torture device tires is practical and just-smell-the-roses
Post purchase rationalization is a hell of a drug.
