You make a good point. In fact, these discussions are wasteful in the absence of good ways to define the goals and their relative importance.
If a Martian landed and joined DIYaudio, he would ask, "With all the talk about favouring low distortion, why are these Earthlings using cone speakers instead of electrostatic panels?"
There are good replies to that (cats, trouble, danger, cost, size, maintenance, my grandfather would never permit a dipole speaker in his house ....). But my point is that we need to lay out priorities better.
B.
You'll have to define 'low distortion' since a critically damped reflex meets the basic criteria, but not considered good enough by some folks that swear only sealed meets it and even then there's the issue of which system Q [sysQ] it should be tuned to.
For the record though, a max flat impedance TL technically has the lowest distortion over the widest bandwidth [BW] with the trade off that they tend to be huge to ~flatten out the driver's impedance peak.
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