He was just trying to help you with price. It's not about being a "morph snob". To me I think of it like when people breed bettas. You can either start with two petstore quality veiltail bettas where the babies produced are worth nothing and you have to be ready to hang onto all of them or gift them to people. Or you can drop a few hundred extra and get a pair that is going to give you show quality babies. Either way you're still paying all that money for setups and food and the same amount of time if you have bad breeding stock vs. good breeding stock. One gives you more "eh" quality babies and the other gets you nicer, and more sellable, babies. To me it's the same costs to feed and house them so why not start with the best stock you can afford if you want to breed? No need to put more low quality morphs out there.

Now your original post said nothing about taking them in to give them a good home. The opinions you were given were going off of what you posted, about using them to breed and whether that money was appropriate for how they are.