Steve, I reacted to your mention of "subjectivity" because I have a huge problem with how it seems to creep into any discussion these days, and is used to undermine any idea of truth. As for binocular reviews, I don't think a good review boils down to "opinions". If you and I describe the view and handling of the same binocular in sufficient detail, the results should be fairly similar, even if you concentrate more on one thing and I another, or we have different preferences, which in any case a third party will filter according to their own. I suppose you could call this a "repeatable" result, to some degree even "objective".
As for "bias being read as truth" -- yes, there seems to be a lot of that going around today. What I said was that everyone knows how to correct for bias, not that they always do it. Human nature, as you say; some are lazy, or worse. And throwing up our hands and talking about subjectivity only encourages more of that.
Back to BBR... what I wanted to say was that these reviews, full of charts and diagrams (often the same ones) as they are, don't tell me enough about each specific model in the field to reach a useful judgment.