As far as flak, I think your point about album appreciation could be interesting if presented in a more constructive way. The tone of your comment comes across as somewhat condescending, which can make it harder for others to engage with the idea.
Basically, some music is made to be digested in small, radio/club-sized pieces and I argue that most of it does so not to fulfill an artistic vision. There are some exceptions, using this opportunity to maximize "streamlining" (I mean, I listen to some Eurobeat, so I fully understand that) and St Exupery's famous "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away", but that's definitely not the rule.
Also, people already drew pretty good comparisons to opera and other stuff that loses too much by being listened on a single track basis.
Addendum: elitism may have a very double-plus-ungood connotation in the current year, but I've never heard a valid, factual argument against it; which is even funnier when you realize the kind of people conditioned to react this way to the word have a similar filter for "populism".
It's basically one of the modern "witches" arguments.