I don't know that is fact but I imagine many do. There are a lot of people that buy phones for strange reasons. Look at the majority of Iphone and Samsung customers. My ex wife, my daughter, ex girlfriends all have IPhones.... Two of my brothers buy Samsung....all of the dance moms and kids at my daughter's dance academy mostly have IPhones. None of them can tell you anything about phones except the brand name. Their are two coworkers at my job that have the G4.... They know nothing about phones. The Lan support employees have a mix of Android personal phones because being techies they hate Iphones. Their work phones are Iphone. Only us phone snobs that hang out in forums care about this feature or that feature. Trying explaining Quad DAC s to the average person or high end headphones. They pretend to understand but they could care less.
To summarize, yes dumb people follow the crowds without any idea of where they are going. I would like to believe smart people buy features that they need. I for one need two things from a phone: 1: Expandable memory. 2: Replaceable battery.
Why you ask, easy, I carry movies, books, emulators over 200 gigs. I go places internet is unavailable and no, cloud storage is not an option where I travel. (think open range, mountain area).
On to number 2, I go place were a power source is not an option for multiple days. I replaceable battery allows me to change the power source and be on the move without having to deal with a battery bank.
In addition, I just felt frustrated to no end trying to replace a battery from a Moto x pure (battery would die after a few hours). After having to deal with glue, badly placed screws and an enclosure that was never meant to be opened I decided to go with the LG V20 for the two reasons mentioned above.
Yes, I do need the V30 to have a replaceable battery and expandable storage. Do I care if its IPX68, would be nice, but the my two wants above trump it every single time!
For a device that cost 800+ US dollars I expect a lot more! I think the cell phone market is seriously gouging us poor consumers!