Why is it that audio interfaces are developed to support 192KHZ sample rate if 44.1KHZ is equal? Are they wasting time and selling us snake oil?
Why do plugins upsample internally to higher sample rates when editing to perform calculations?
If some are ok with compromise, regardless whether it's little or small compromise, that's fine and, if others want to eek the last possible incremental benefit from using higher sample rates, that should also be fine.