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Overly serious wall of text answer:

The reason that the general public can't tell a good classical performance from a bad one is that taste develops from exposure. If you haven't been exposed to classical music, you won't be able to make judgements about it in ways that are relevant to classical music.
"I can't dance to this."
"Where are the lyrics?"
"wheres the beat?"
These are all questions from the perspective of someone who's only framework for understanding music is pop or rock, and they are largely irrelevant in terms of value when asked about classical music. You get the exact same thing with jazz.

What I would propose is that en masse, the anonymous silent blob of "chiptune" fans are actually pop/rock music fans. These aren't the type to sit on here or ucollective and chat about gear or fancy ways of using PWM to create interesting inflections of sound. These people's exposure is mostly to popular music, maybe EDM, with "chiptune" largely meaning "squarewaves/videogamereferences". The concert goers "tolerate" it (if you must phrase it that way) because the lens they see music through is poppy-dancey-rock and so they like it to sound, and be produced like that. The average listener doesn't have the exposure to know otherwise, and they most likely don't care.

I make music that integrates Chip hardware, DAW's and traditional instruments. I mostly write tracker music as practice for my other music because it gives me another perspective and interesting material to incorporate elsewhere that I couldn't make otherwise. I'm quite happy to point out that the majority of the music I make is Alternative Rock with chip music elements, and it's meant to be view through the lens of alt rock, rather than purist chipmusic. I'd hope that wouldn't exclude me from too many shows, because I mostly avoid the "OMG CHIP GAMEBOYS AND HEARTS 8BIT FOR LIFE" thing altogether,