i disagree with your HCP that switching to the standard rationales will result in lost sound quality and change the noise treatment.
The only thing I’m aware of in Genie 2 if you don’t use the VAC+ rationale is that you don’t have the options to adjust the 2 parameters in the Sound Controls section as seen below → the Brightness Perception and the Soft Sound Perception. That’s because those parameters were design specifically for the VAC+ rationale only and they can’t be applied to the standard rationales.
If your HCP claims that the noise treatment would change in Genie 2 for the standard rationales, you should ask him how would they change really? I’m not aware that Genie 2 does anything different on the noise treatment front for the standard rationales.
In terms of losing the ability to specify the Brightness Perception which you can do with the VAC+ rationale, in general the standard rationales will sound brighter than VAC+ for the most part. So if you already tend to set the VAC+ program toward the brighter end, then it’s not much different than the other standard rationales.
The soft sound perception is a nice touch to have, but that’s only relative to input volume level that is on the low end that happens with soft sounds. It’s not going to be a big negative for the standard rationales if you don’t control of that.
Besides, even if what your HCP said is true (and I really doubt that they are), what’s the harm of using the other 3 programs for the 3 standard rationales to try out anyway? In the end, you’re the judge of it, and if they’re truly lacking or not up to par against VAC+ like your HCP seems to imply, then OK, now you know and you can just remove them after you’ve tried them.
I really think your HCP just gave you “cop-out” excuses so that he doesn’t have to get it all set up for you because it just means more extra work for him.