You're entitled to it. As a thought exercise, which you don't have to share, consider the likelihood that if Fender had not bought Guild there would be no Guild today. Some folks would be OK with that. Some folks wouldn't.
You do make a quite valid point, but I suppose it's just a combination of my anal purist attitude with the reluctance to accept change as one progresses into the abyss of old flatulent souldom that makes me this way.....
Far back in the day I always saw the major acoustic guitar makers as follows:
Gibson took the mass production route quite early, banging them out by the thousands after the war. I was talking to an old luthier in the 70s that told me they were a mess inside and couldn't understand how they sounded so good.
when I started tearing into them I understood what he meant, but still was fond of them anyway. Until Norling had their way with them and then they moved out of Kalamazoo....
I equated Guild right up there with Martin for quality, great attention to detail, clean inside, for that matter I viewed them as almost being a "boutique" guitar.
My wife took me to the Martin factory tour for my 60th birthday in 2012. The automation left me with a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach.
Just the way of the world I guess, with the quality issues that I read about coming out of the new Guild facility, it just leaves me longing for a world that has passed by........I know, flatulent old soul talk.