In reply to John Kelly:
I've been thinking a little more about this and I think the reason it seems instinctively 'wrong' to lots of folks (myself included) is that some climbs are by their nature 'elite'. They discriminate against those who don't have the skills and strength to climb them. That's the nature of the game, and there's nothing wrong with that. In fact it's kind of the point. If ticking your first E2, E3, E4 etc wasn't an 'elite' experience it would be less satisfying. If everyone could climb such routes on their first day of pulling their fat ass off the sofa and putting on a pair of rock shoes, your years of training, dieting, stretching, fingerboarding etc, wouldn't mean as much. We value rare things, and the closer you get to E8, the more rare the experience.
As the route gets harder, the ways in which it can be climbed get fewer. By the time you get to an E8 slab, the ripples, crystals and features you can pull, smear or stand on get very few, and as a result, each tiny feature is important. There aren't other options if you lose a pebble, or a marginal smear becomes polished. That's why it's 'worse' to polish up a hard friction slab than some VDiff where there are almost infinite ways of climbing it and countless combinations of hand and foot placements. Such a route can take a little polish and still be climbable by most people.
So, I don't think it's elitist in a snobby way to ask beginners not to trash around on a route like this. It's just asking them to be respectful of a challenge which is beyond them at this time, and which is more susceptible to damage than other, easier routes, where damage is defined as changes which substantially negatively effect the climbability of the route.
Well, that's my two cents anyway
I do however think Obsession Fatale would benefit from a couple of bolts to make it more accessible to the masses.....