Nothing wrong with buying a quality bike unless it is used to judge the quality of other peoples bikes. Then it becomes a negative. Even worse when a person doesn't even own the bike.

When I think of touring I think of the routes, terrain and length of a tour - not what type of bike someone buys. In that case Tall Poppy Syndrome would apply to knocking those qualities... which I rarely see here. Quite frankly, buying a bike doesn't require anything more than access to credit. It's no measure of the person riding it.