We buy what we like, and let's be honest we follow trends, what is hip today, and another fact we Audiophiles are a blip on the map in sales of consumer audio/sale of physical media. Boomers are this hobby. CD has been put down for the last 10 years by the same folks who for 20 years reviewed systems and called the state of the Art using CD as their main source. So I give their opinions zero value. I never would have sold my vinyl collection if not having the opportunity to buy CDs of LP's that were long out of print, and the quality of the vinyl by then was the pit in quality, that is the one good thing about the invention of the CD, old catalogs were open back up for re-release where with the vinyl version they long been retired due to all that wanted them had purchased them. 2nd thing about how folks keep talking of CDs sounding like they did 30 years ago when the format was young, that be like saying vinyl and recordings sounded the same in the '50s as they in 1920.
I have CDs that kill my 1st pressing of the LP version I owned and then visa versa, this shows it not the format but the time put into making the recordings for release. Magzine saw the tread towards downloading music and much for free, and knew boomers to be resistant, so what did boomers grow on like me vinyl, then overnight the vinyl push began, and for young kids vinyl was different from what they grew up on and cool to own, I love vinyl but there no going back for me to just replace what I own or have owned that be nuts and a waste of money. And if you want to buy vinyl find the original pressing and not the ones released today if you want the sound of those recording as intended at the time.
I like to interact with my music so feeling touch and putting a disc on is enjoyable, I've downloaded a few titles I own and the CD sounded better, I've burned a CD on exact copy and again the CD sounded better, not matter FLAC or WAV. But I love having 1,200 songs on my USB to listen to in my car, no more XM/Sirus, I really don't need them. I can burn more and more songs in MP3 and the sound quality is better than the XM/Sirus. So there is benefits to burning music, I can be my own DJ...smile!
To end I have a huge family and extended family 150 or more, all ages, and not one was an audio system of any value, and the others use streaming, or their cell phone with buds, and those with an audio system that is older than dirt and not even the cost of a medium-priced power cord. So we Audiophiles are in a small group of our own and we are not mainstream. The Master Tape the best source to hear, Vinyl being superior is a myth, and then that depends on what arm, cartridge, table, mat, VTA, and tracking angle and who set up your table and how good they were, each of the above add colorations to the sound and changes the sound and that can be night and day. So like audio what is the sound you enjoy but it is never the master tape. Enjoy the music no matter the format which is better it is the one you enjoy!.