One thing to remember here as well is that the common listener really doesn't even have an EAR for picking out certain things. I've talked to people that can't tell you the difference between the kick and the snare in a song, they're just accepting the end result as MUSIC. So imagine taking ALL that knowledge about perfectly spliced transients and harmonically separated EQs and down-to-the-millisecond exact guitar and drums and put yourself in the layman's place and ask yourself does it work as a whole?
there is definitely something to be said about taking pride in your work. Treating the recording process as if you're the foreman and you want to see every nail and every shingle perfectly in place, but at the end of the day, you want to do what's right for THAT band, not just YOURSELF as a producer. If that band kinda hinges themselves on having a few key human elements in their music, try not to let your ego as a producer get in the way that some other producer jerk out there is gonna rip you a new one for not catching their mistake. We're ALL knowitalls when we sit behind the desk, or DAW, or what have you, but take us out of the picture and think about the art, the musician, and most importantly the listener.
If we all worry about how much our reputation is on the line due to a human characteristic, we're gonna end up with a bunch of albums by Beneath The Massacre... that's not even music, it's a masturbatory effort in constructing sound. It's a cool achievement for what it is, but people loved the shit out of metal before we had triggers, before we had visual waveform editing, and before we had much more than a classic rock recording approach towards guys who wanted to be louder and meaner.
But I digress
