Lend me that unicycle for some rapid backpedalling, will you?...OK I certainly think that actual Hawaiians should probably be exempt, as well as any George Formby enthusiasts who can't afford banjoleles. And I will certainly check out the artists you've mentioned - my disdain is more about this...
I'm not even going down the JS Bach road for fear of seeming pretentious. But I couldn't imagine either this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0I2ZrBuFdQ
...or even better, this utterly magical piece of music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG-ZO26pnE8
...any other way. The harpsichord rocks.
I would have to go along with this. After all it's really just a small, cheap, tinny-sounding toy guitar with a tiny fraction of the guitar's dynamic or expressive range - something which might be excusable when real guitars were still quite expensive but that's far from the case these days...