Many Protestants hate beauty
What a crock!
You wrote:
“What a crock!”
No, it is true. History makes that obvious: literally millions of acts of Protestant iconclasm, Puritan dourness and the Puritan confusion of plainnes with simpleness, the barrenness of most Protestant churches, the blandness of most modern Protestant music (which has unfortunately crept into the Catholic parish in the last 45 years), etc.