I think you are right about excessive exhaust as loud as you can to blurt out. I always liked a healthy exhaust note but don’t do that shit everywhere you go, It will F it up for everyone, and it does piss people off in residential neighbor hoods.There is a place and time for it. Even open header zoomies uncorked occasionally in the right place can cut it but, use some brains. Also I think the factory exhaust is just right. If you are just cruising around it won’t attract LEO and piss people off, but when it’s time to play, and when the time is right it can get very throaty when right foot is planted. We are in the car and don’t hear it as much as outside the car, but when you hear another factory cat getting into it the note is loud and pleasing, but again in the right place and time.
keep that bullshit going and with more and more silent electrics roaming around it will put more of a target on our back.
I would like to keep a bag of potatoes and and a wooden mallet in the trunk for every time I hear a Honda with zero power and a chrome canon exhaust maximized for loud fart noise. You can guess the rest.