>>4084609The only time you might actually prefer the disgusting flat rendering is if you are one of the 0.001% of photographers who for whatever reason do commercial abstract work (e.g what Paloma Rincon does) for everything else and especially for portraiture, editorials or just about any kind of environmental shots, landscapes or anything else that has a lot of detail, a lens that has heavenly dimensional rendering and smooth as butter micro contrast will always produce way more pleasing and way more natural looking images that don't just look like flat, 2D cut outs of objects thrown onto a piece of cardboard to form an image.
>pic related - shot on SL2 and 100mm Elmarit APO Macro 