No problem, everyone does what he/she likes the best.
For me to become a ham was looking for challenges, 2 meter SSB and 70 Cm SSB and 23 CM band there and on 70 mostly homebrew.
Not easy but when the results were there you did it yourself, not bought equipment.
When i was done there i went for HF and 6 meter, and the last 10 years a home made 77 feet vertical on my little plot on the edge of the city, another challenge every other ham said it can't be done, well, i did it.
We just have more bands and frequencies at our fingers, depending on conditions we go where they are, be it 160 m or 80 or up.
Spend some time on 11 meters, but not for the last 20+ years, my new radio won't even go there just transmits on Ham bands.
My choice, and since i have been around since 12 years young building stuff and I'm almost 68 been there, done it.
I don't want to be limited to one band, just try every band and it's own properties and propagation.
But that is my choice, and I respect your choice fully.
Ham radio cost money even building your own stuff, Cars cost money, clothing, guns,food all we don't want to do without.
Most transceivers were 2nd hand, only my FT 847 with collins filters and the new FT 991a are new bought.
Even being ham it can be done cheap.
Looking at peeple buying an export radio of 400 or 500 Euro here, while you can buy a new entrance FT 450 for that or a better second hand?
Some 11 meter peeps even have better stuff as me, no problem with that either.
I can pay for it, being pensioned i took care in my working life to save up and pay in my personal pension fund as well getting paid out of the Government pensionfund i paid in for 50 years.
So bought an almost new car when i retired after 15 years of 80 hour working weeks as T.I.G welder/Pipefitter, and 35 years doing other long hour jobs driving trucks through Europe, or even being Her Majesties Customs officer.
We all are mandatory insured for healthcare so no problems there.
Even saving up every month, living a good life, all paid for by working hard and long hours my whole working life.
Being an ham is a very wide world of opportunities you fill in yourself, i do what I want to do, nobody tells me what i need to do there.
On my little plot of 100 x 25 feet I put up the antenna's that worked the world on 160 - 6 meters.
2/70 all Europe, Russia, Middle East, North Africa etc.
My FT 991a is the first radio with a screen and waterfall and spectrum scope though
Do I work more stations with it? nope my old transceivers do just as well, it is your knowledge of propagation and which band to use in what time that does that.
As always i listen more as yapping on the radio and learn as much I can.
AS long you and I are both happy in what we do there is no problem.
I never looked down on 11 meter people, contrary been there done that too.
We all are in the radio hobby, whatever we do.