Dark roast is what you do to make poor beans drinkable. Good beans are ruined with dark roasts.
I respectfully disagree and stand by my linear progression. My best guess is that you haven’t had good beans and a light roast, so you may not even be aware.
But an oily dark roast on good beans will taste almost identical to an oily dark roast on shitty beans.
Ultimately though, we’re just disagreeing on a simple linear ordering because a simple linear ordering is inadequate to describe it.
Dark roast is what you do to make poor beans drinkable. Good beans are ruined with dark roasts.
I respectfully disagree and stand by my linear progression. My best guess is that you haven’t had good beans and a light roast, so you may not even be aware.