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Or, alternatively, bite the bullet and actually update on "mainstream" opinion. This entails becoming curious about why mainstream opinion is what it is, rather than skeptical that its judgements are correct (on the basis of your immediate experience).
Well, he's done that. It's not clear to me that the OP was written from a place of skepticism rather than a place of curiosity.
I think he should be both. What he shouldn't be is dismissive.
(He should also consider the possibility that aesthetic judgements simply aren't matters of objective fact, at least not wholly, but for present purposes I think that's effectively a linguistic quibble.)