When you are restricted to three or four rifles, none duplicating, and are using them, it makes sense to have an all-weather rifle like a T3 Stainless in .308 , and save the nicest spot for something bought for a special trip to Africa, for example. Rifles and shotguns are tools. You can appreciate a Wetterlings axe, but also have a Fiskars with a synthetic handle for chopping out a boxwood - and appreciate them both.
I have not been to France in a long time, but there were some really nice gun shops in Paris. There were also a lot of French buying Remington 700s, pump action and autoloading rifles. A lot of the fine but unembellished stalking rifles of the 1920s and 1930s which I love, now sell for a fraction of what they would cost to build today. That is not because the British, French or Germans don't appreciate them. Some surely don't, but they just cannot own all they would like to own. Many Americans also just want plastic and stainless steel. I am glad there are rich people who had those things built, and happy today there are rich people keeping the craftsmen employed. And I am glad there are not many people competing with those of use who do appreciate a Verney-Carron.