Are you saying that home recording took off with a quest for perfection or lo-fi?
Neither.
I think home recording from it's earliest beginnings was attempting to achieve the same end-result as one could in a pro environment.
I think that was definitely a part of it but I think that there was more to it than that. Alot of people with day jobs still had the desire to record their own stuff and not just play live at weekends and that drove much of the home recording thing. Plus many full timers recorded demos at home and overall, there was the cost factor ~ 'proper' studios cost money. As recording equipment became more affordable, non pros could utilize some of the equipment that the pros used and the natural step from there was getting the same kind of quality that could be achieved in a pro environment. The manufacturers of gear were quick to seize on this hence what we see today with a vast scope in terms of quality. But remember, some pros got good results with some of the equipment that was at the lower end.
The whole "lo-fi" approach is a splinter of that, and was mostly driven by the inability of some home recording SOPs to achieve that perfection, and then from there it morphed into an intentional methodology.
I agree with this in part, but remember, what is now referred to as 'lo fi' existed long before home recording did. It was 'raw', 'edgy' and 'sparse' production. Alot of punk was like that. I think it's slightly sad that the inability to get good recordings was the foundation of so called lo fi.
But that's different to the guerilla approach. The Beatles were prime movers of this, utilizing cupboards, stairwells, cassette tapes, found sounds, boxes and packing crates as snares, plugging guitars straight into mixing desks etc, etc. That kind of thing {and before them, guys like Joe Meek coming out with amazing sounds from his studio in his Holloway Road flat with productions that were created in the most unorthodox way} is really what has driven guerilla recording, the mavericks that utilized their surroundings to help in the creation of great music.
I don't see it as better or worse. I have a natural affinity for it because it fits my circumstances. I tend to be one of those people that sees all of these various strands as valuable in their own right with overlaps between the two. I just notice that sometimes, the bar in 'home recording' is set too high and the pro world has shown that actually, there has long been varying quality between recordings.
'Professional quality' is an interesting phrase and concept because of that very disparity that has always been in recorded and released music.