"It does help that it is made from top quality natural ingredients and not the garbage that goes into most mass-produced beers."

The macros don't use poor quality ingredients. They have a brand to protect and they use excellent quality hops, grain, water and yeast as well. They also brew in a much more consistent manner than the micros. They do add things like corn which adds highly fermentable sugars to the mash to increase the attenuation of the yeast. By doing this, they can make a beer that tastes lighter and people can easily drink a lot of. It might not have as much taste as a micro, but it's not accurate to look down on it as low quality.

For me, I'll go bud or miller lite. I do like the budvar yeast and bud has a reasonable amount of taste in it. Miller lite is nice and has a good hop character. I just wish that the US breweries would realize that light doesn't have to apply to both calories and alcohol. The only good beer I found in Australia was the low carb kind...they were full alcohol though.