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T206Collector...but the positives far outweight them.
What most anti-graders will tell you is that the grading phenomena led to a rise in prices, so it was harder to collect what they wanted to collect. There is also a bit of a class struggle when it comes to card collecting, which periodically raises its ugly head on this board, and the grading phenomena feeds into that.
At the end of the day, when someone tells you that cards should be loved outside of plastic, I have a very hard time believing that touching is better than holding in plastic and observing. If you need to touch your cardboard baseball men, you probably need to get out more.