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What's up with the Beatles in mono, anyway?

Their rise and fall as an active group encompassed the early to very late 1960s more or less. Stereo was in vogue already by the very early 60s. All the Beatles LPs that I and my wife bought new during those years (we didn't yet know each other) are in stereo, to include Abbey Road, Sergeant Paper, etc. I also own what I believe to be an original pressing of Revolver on Parlophone, pressed in the UK; it's stereo. Likewise, I have the equivalent on the Capitol label, pressed in the US, also in stereo. So where does the obsession with mono Beatles albums as being more true to the form come from, apart from the fact that the recently issued mono Beatles set may sound better to some than the very same set in stereo?

I know someone is going to tell me I am ignorant of the real history. That's why I asked.

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