Fair enough, you were the only arguer who put it in a reasonable way.

The BPM weirdness is an issue for me because I rather have awareness in being consistent for people who make music that are played by DJs or that are popular remix materials for people to work on (not piano instrumentals, orchestral, folk songs, etc.). And when people don't, I can fix it easily, but it just feels like it shouldn't even have to be something to fix. There're a lot of other tracks doing just fine being normal.

When I make some kinda orchestral composition or whatever, I just let myself free. But when I make an EDM, I'm hoping my stuff gets played and such, and like said, Dubstep would be 140. I wouldn't be comfortable rendering my song at 138.5 when I know what the common standard is. I don't have to do it that way, but it just feels more courteous and disciplined. It's not within my control that it's going to be spun at 140 anyway, so might as well make it 140 by default. It's not like the track is significantly worse, musically compromised in any big way, or leaving an empty feeling in me for bowing down to the corporations or whatever.

But many people don't think it that way, they're like "Oh I have this sample I want to use for my dubstep, after some tweaking here and there, I feel it sounds best at 138.5, I don't care about anything else. Hurr Durr. Let's just make it 138.5 because somehow objectively this has to be the best BPM I can go with for reasons only my inner music prodigy have determined. The world revolves around my decision."

And they're not faced with the revelation of playing their music in the club to find that it sounds horrible because its EQed for himself, so they, and everyone just move on like there wasn't an issue. But there was, it's just become one of those technical setbacks that are expected and is hard to change. When it doesn't have to be that way.