Alternative direction after an optical test

I just finished an optical test of an achromatic refractor. I used to use 5-point scale to rank telescopes. However I found that I was spoiled by those ED/APOs! I should give the achromatic refractor negative score. I have several refractors. Some are achromatic and some are EDs or so-called APOs. After I got the ED/APOs, all my achromatic refractors are sitting in the store room and gather no more photons. I do most of the visual observations and imaging with ED/APO refractors. I never seriously look back the achromatic refractors again. Until recently I bought a small 60mm china made refractor and tested it. I found that it got serious chromatic aberration and the finish was bad. My instant feeling was that I bought garbage! Then I dug out my Meade ETX70. Although the finish is good, the chromatic aberration is very bad. I do remember I was once satisfied with these achromatic refractors. Now I say they are garbage! I was really spoiled by those ED/APOs. In most of the time when I do optical testing of those ED/APOs, I deliberately push the magnification to limit, point to bright and high contrast objects and do rigorous star tests etc. Radically fault picking the scopes. Sometimes the differences can be only be identified by experienced telescope users. In fact if one is not doing a side by side test, I doubt the results are reliable. I asked myself is it the way to promote astronomy. I can say virtually all the telescopes we used nowadays are much better than the one used by Galileo 400 years ago. His achievement in astronomy was tremendous! I reckon that always talk about prestigious telescopes may not be the way to promote astronomy because the price of those prestigious scopes are too high in some sense. We should introduce more good value scopes, for example Sky-watcher Mak 127 or even binoculars, to the public. These good value scopes once lead me to the world of astronomy. What do you guys think?