Strongly disagree with this: > I think the variety in barista coffee is different from the variety in, say, fashion or wine because with fashion and wine there

Strongly disagree with this: > I think the variety in barista coffee is different from the variety in, say, fashion or wine because with fashion and wine there is social signalling and all kinds of things going on Sounds like OP just doesn't care about coffee thst much. Fine for them, but any subject has a subculture; there are definitely social signaling games within the coffee world