Having started in this hobby/obsession when vinyl was the only thing, I still have several hundred LPs. My turntable has been mothballed for a few years, so I recently resurrected it and fired it up for another trip down memory lane. Admittedly, I haven't spend 25K on a turntable/arm/cartridge, but my old Thorens has always done well with that format. I also took very good care of my records, storing them in new plastic sleeves and cleaning them faithfully. After putting on a few of my favorite classical, jazz, and rock discs (mainly Steely Dan), I was reminded why I switched to digital several years ago. Hiss, click, pop, rumble. Lord, who wants to go back to that? Admittedly, if you ignored the surface noise, the recordings themselves were pretty good, but compared to a multi-channel DVD-A or SACD, there just ain't no going back. Same with rotary dial phones, TRS-80s, '72 Pintos, and Chef Boy-Ar-Dee spaghetti.
Of course, like always, that's just my opinion...I could be wrong.