I think that,like in the way we view very many things,determining a guitar's worth depends to a very large extent on factors like how and where we we're brought and live and stuff like that.
As a typical Kenyan(and I'm that,in a rough sense),paying $2000 for a guitar is abweirsane(that's absurd+weird+insane).Coz in this country half the population lives on less than a dollar a day,a fact that I'm sure antiglobalization millitants would well expound upon.If say I won some prize somewhere for the equivalent of $2000 and spent that money on aguitar and an amp,my very staunch christian family would temporarily ditch their religion and hook me up with a witchdoctor for specialized intercession.
But speaking as a wannabe musician,I'm convinced it's worth paying that kind of money for a guitar(generally that range of $1000-2000).Not necessarily a PRS,but a guitar.As of the particular attributes that would make me value a specific guitar,that I think depends largely on the individual's state,degree of in/misinformation and so on.
So there.
Cavefish:
Not liking something is your right.You shouldn't have to apologise for it,because you don't have to like something just coz others like it,and thus have to make apologies for not "fitting in",in as much as human beings are social animals.
And btw,I LOVE country.
Another thing,what difference does it make if an instrument is hand made or machine made?As I ask this,I'm thinking that walking to the supermarket(yes,we too have those around here)takes me a lot more time riding a bicycle does.Think hand made Vs. macine made.