No, people generally arrive at this view because they read too much about it on teh interwebz.
Rob
oh dear…Rob the doubter 
…this is where it starts to get interesting!!!
enjoy
Self appeal to authority. Hooey!
Yah…Whooda Thunkit?
R
In an ideal world it would be nice to use locally available woods. However, most don’t have the acoustical or structural properties required for a really good instrument. Here in the NW we have big leaf maples, fruit woods, Madrona and others and all are too punky and porous to make a good flute without additional steps such as resin impregnation. There are a few species here that are good such as Oregon Crabapple and Mountain Mahogany - but unless one goes out and cut them oneself, these just aren’t commercially available. I don;t like risking my hands with things like chain saws so I leave the wood cutting to those who are expert at it, and purchase my wood where and when I can.
casey
we could train some of the vine maple…circular flute!
I’ll run the chain saw if you can figure out how to ream it 
Reality check, wood was abandoned 100 years ago.
Metal, the stuff cars and lunch boxes were made of.
Google “flute” what do you find? 14 century throwbacks?
Bone flutes? Jade is almost as hard as you can get.
No, metal is what you find.
Seriously, Boehm did such a great job that people
dumped those table legs.
Maybe I am dense and don’t understand.
What is the point of playing something with
personality if you try to extinguish it?
I think of myself as a fife player.
Just a tube with holes. I like the sound.
Baroque, Renaissance, and others play to their strengths.
So shouldn’t wood be kept in context too?
you’ve never seen the Boehm world go on about what metal to use for the chimney then?
dis is nuttin’
Wood question this topic is called
Would it were called question of timbre
For wood is what the French call timbre
Yet timbre relies not only on wood