You are 100 percent correct, except for this: some people (like me) make our music in a small project studio or apartment, and have no easy access to great sounding rooms. If I could record my tracks in spaces with decent acoustics, I would, but most of the time, I'm stuck at home, and my studio sounds dead and flat. Therefore, when I need a good reverb (and I don't soak everthing in verb, but some things call for it), I need to do it in hardware or software. Jon