This really is an argument that will never go anywhere...
But, as a point of interest, in the collector car world there is a shift away from restored cars in preference of originals, even if they show wear.
The main reason not to restore a Parker is the philosophy that once a set of hands in 2012 recuts the checkering and engraving, and refinishes the gun, the gun is no longer as 'Parker' as a Parker that had its checkering cut by a Parker employee back in the day. If we're sitting in a duck blind and my Parker was put together by a Parker employee in 1912 and yours was put together by Larry Smelznick of Good 'Ol Boy Guns in 2011, my Parker has a lot more credence.
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