good lens is good lens , it saves you from doing countless things in darkroom , its like you have a ferrari , you can go other point earlier and with fun and proud , there is no bad logic behind this.
A Ferrari gets stuck in traffic just like my Buick.
Do you realize that cheap plastic lenses today, like in cell phones, are often as good as old, hand calculated, mechanically ground, uncoated lenses of 60 years ago? And that it's all diminishing returns? That a $10,000 lens in most cases won't take a better picture than a $200 one? That great pictures usually have more to do with the skills of the photographer than the lens quality?
All you have to do is look at all the fools with their digital auto-everything $3000 cameras and big glass and look at the results. Usually, they suck. No skill.