You seem to be much of the same opinion of the Stereophile reviewer who said:
"
Conclusions
Every day I listened to the Wharfedale Diamond 225s, part of me
wanted to write, "Hey, these new speakers are nice, musical, even-tempered, and easy to live with. But they're nothing special. They're not designed in a wizard's shack behind a British row house and manufactured in some quaint Station Road factory with a pub down the way." I almost wished I could say, "The 225s were created by some secret war-room consortium of
Dr. Strangelove imperialists," or to declare something like, "They play music
just pleasantly enough—in a general, average sort of way—to fool the scruffy underclasses."
But none of it was true."
https://www.stereophile.com/content/wharfedale-diamond-225-loudspeaker