The compressor debate comes around like the falling of leaves in Autumn. It has a certain predictability.
It's because few compressors seem at first to do very much, and folk think it's an effect pedal when it's not really.
I was just as guilty once, so don't want to name call those still in that state.
The real point is no one makes us use compression into our amps if we don't want to. But work a big stage or go into a studio and you will have it applied like it or not.