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On top of that, 20 kHz is quite the theoretical upper limit.
Most people, be it due to aging (affects all of us) or due to behaviour (some way more than others), can't hear that far up anyway. Most people would be suprised how high up even e.g. 17 kHz is. Sounds a lot closer to very high pitched "hissing" or "shimmer", not something that's considered "tonal".
So yeah, saying "oh no, let me have my precious 30 kHz" really is questionable.
At least when it comes to listening to finished music files. The validity of higher sampling frequencies during various stages in the audio production process is a different, way less questionable topic,