The last "light roast" coffee I had tasted fruity and tea-like. I hated it. I don't care if medium and darker tends to be more one-note; I want coffee to taste like coffee.
Coffee is a berry. "Tasting like coffee" includes those fruit aspects, because it is literally a fruit. Bringing out its natural fruity characteristics requires quality, fresh beans and a very competent roaster. Fruity and tea-like is exactly one of the aspects I go for when seeking out coffee.
Roasting to a higher level has been popular historically because it can cover up all sorts of faults, but still give a consistent character. Most of us grow up only tasting that.
But find a high quality lightly roasted specialty coffee, or even roast your own beans... and there's so many nuances there that are missed when clobbered with a high roast level.
So yes, I want my coffee to taste like coffee too. Like the coffee berry.
Coffee's the seed of a berry fruit. You're not really contradicting me so I'm not sure what the motivation was for your diatribe except that you're triggered someone doesn't like the horse piss that you do. Taste in coffee isn't "rationalized", by knowledge of it's origin or otherwise. You either like it or you don't.
