There's definitely a bunch of people that want to separate you from your hard earned dollars. Many of them right here on this forum. What better way to do it than create two sides, then send the pawns to war. That's the way they do it in the real world. Make you believe what you stand behind is right and you will exhaust all your resources trying to prove it.
No doubt there is bad mouthing analog/vinyl, but I see it mostly on forums and in articles like the one Ron posted in that thread he started. Not sure about a global conspiracy to rid the world of it though. Much of the forum stuff is just typical preference and debate and vitriol.
The anti-digital articles also are publishing misinformation -- usually more so than the anti-vinyl articles. The "technical information" there is mostly bogus. They just don't understand digital technology.
I get it, it's hard to understand. I didn't understand it either for many years, even though I'm a digital guy. But there are good videos out there that explain it, like these (well worth watching):
