Just like someone else said:
If I really thought about this, I'd just quit building.
I mainly build old school American Muscle cars. It's my style. You know how the old cars weren't that shiny? That's how I make mine. Unless I'm building a replica of a shiny car, I don't use that much clear. In my opinion, I don't think when they created model kits that we'd be having this "feud" right now!!! I'm not building any dang "show quality" models, so yeah, I'm not super concerned about the shinyness of it!