Your vision is warped, Nofi, that's why.
I am your father a frustrated guitarist a pick player (all the time) and all I ever see/notice is finger players!!!
Whenever I'm in a a music shop and try out a bass, I'm the only guy who does that with a pick (and I
just know that all the others are watching me - all the time),
everyone else plays with fingers or slaps, I am convinced that I am the last of a dying breed.
I had no choice but to play with a pick. My first amp - a Dynacord Echolette Showstar -
with 40 watts and a 2x10" cab was inaudible with two (or three) guitars and a drum set if I played with my fingers. So I started playing with a pick and real high, 12th fret and higher - that helped to be heard. Decades later I read that New Order's Peter Hook patterned his bass playing the same way for the same cause in his early Joy Division days.
But the pick and the high register playing stuck with me - even though I never was nor wanted to be a guitarist. I know a lot of good bass players that never venture beyond, say, the 10th fret, but for me it's natural to play little snippets up high and go back to the low notes. People ask "but you're losing the low foundation if you do that", but to me playing high is Pavlov-ingrained with being heard at all (the foundation can wait a few seconds and I always return/dive-bomb back to it with renewed zeal/fervor after my adventures up high!
) though I have long had bass amps that can transport those low notes at audible volume too. But as they say: Once bitten, twice shy, and you can't teach an old dog new tricks.
It influenced my playing in other ways too. I never learned to slap, but I'm a proficient and creative chord player on bass, plus have a penchant for a good bass melody. And I guess that I play in a way that automatically draws atention to the bass, whether it is root note simple or something outlandish. That stems from my early days too - I learned that to get noticed I had to play things in a certain way as I could not rely on sheer volume.
Nowadays, of course, I'm loud
AND obnoxious.
