It is subjective, but we all agree that eye appeal is one of the most important aspects of a card, if not the most important, right?
Well how can you grade a card but ignore the most important aspect of judging a card? For decades before grading, we all used eye appeal as our #1 criteria, or at least #2 or #3, but now all of a sudden the grading criteria are written in stone like commandments, and we've left out the most important criterion? It seems silly.
I will admit that the effect is mitigated by the fact that buyers know when a card has eye appeal and will bid accordingly. But this fact does not show the success of the current system, it merely shows the importance of eye appeal despite the defective grading system.
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