I do not really disagree with you, but do want to make several points about Wireworld cables, relative to many other 'iem cables' on the market. This may sound like the rant of a fan-boy, but it is really just a rant that's been brewing in me for some time, and this just triggered it. Just for the record, the company I work for does not sell Wirwworld products, so this is also not a thinkl;y disguised sales pitch either.
Seems to me than most of the iem cables are variations on a very narrow theme- copper, silver-plated copper, or silver; either sold, stranded or litz, and sometimes occ. All braided and terminated using mostly the same connectors. Some even mix some strands of different metals together to acheive a specific sonic result.It's almosty like having a bunch of restaurants all cooking the same things, with slight variations (if any) in seasonsings, or the proportions of ingreedients. The cables are made from, essentially, off-the-shelf components, made by hand by overworked individuals, and one pays/orders, and waits a really long time to get a specific braided vision of heaven.
Wireworld has devoted years of time and effort in R&D, has components of their own proprietary design manufactured for them, and has a production facility wherein paid employees terminated the cables either for stock, or to order. The cables are designed to be sonically indistinguishable from a direct by-pass; not cooked up to have a specific sonic flavoring. They are the way they are becasue each design element contributes to that design goal. Form follows function. Other cables that are well-received also have some ergonomic "challenges" (Dita's VandenHul and the Cardas cable from their 5813 iems to name a few). The electrical peformance, not the form-factor, or the availability of off the shelf materials determines the result.
None of the above means you have to like them, or that they will meet your specific sonic taste or expectations. It does mean that they are a real product. The fact that they have been successful for a long time, and well regarded, counts for something.