I'm going to chime in here and shed some light on this situation.
There is definitely an objective reason why people decide to go barebottom. It's probably a moot point to restate all the points that Albert made, but I'll do it anyway for the people that are slow to catch on:
1. This is the most common complaint I hear BEFORE people go BB. "The sandbed is a bitch to clean because of the detritus."
The reason this is first and foremost the single most important key point as to why people remove sandbeds.The accumulation of detritus is extremely high for whatever reason; fish waste, rock detritus. A barebottom 33g tank can have its waste siphoned in roughly a minute. The lack of sandbed allows all waste to gather into dead spots which make it relatively easy to remove.
2. You cannot easily remove as much detritus from a sandbed, unless you spend extreme amounts of time making sure the substrate is clean.
3. Since there are no small critters in your sand to do what you THINK they should be doing, the sandbed essentially becomes a nutrient sink.
4. In juxtaposition to #3, detritus can accumulate much more easily and crash a tank.
Names don't matter that much. So what if I rattle a list of 10 or 20 people that will never go back to using a sandbed?
By the way medican, the learning curve is correlated with the decisions you make within the hobby. It's a question of practicality v.s aesthetics. Since there are is no real live sand with real sand dwelling organisms, the question of beneficial nutrients is irrelevant. Sand just provides another form of denitrification, of which there already is enough in the LR.
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Originally Posted by medican
6/10 will quite because they truly don't love the hobby.... 
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Yeah, because people that don't enjoy chores hate their homes.