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My guess is like you say its on purpose, high beaming of the large mid(woofer) reduces reflections on usual highly reflective modern rooms and too large listening distances at the upper mids and presence (kind of BBC dip in the sound power) followed by some shiny highs due to the wide radiation of the tweeter. It is their signature voicing and in my experience makes poorer recordings sound more pleasant and impressive, kind of audio Glutamate.
TBH, I've only heard the 800D one time, and I found that it sounded good. Didn't have anything to really compare to at the time, though. Bass was very impressive. I do think it's possible they have some internal listening data to justify their preference target, but I wish they'd say that(instead of talking about "accuracy").