"Did I Like The CD?"
Well heck yes, are you kidding? I LOVED THE CD! You didn't have to identify your age as it would have been easily guessed from your thoughts. LOL
I grew up on 45s, singles we bought and treasured like you did your first CDs, only in later years did the LP become the predominately purchased media.
But in short when the CD came along and I could finally afford a player and discs, I was dancing in the streets. Combine the vastly superior sound quality, lack of fragility, with the convenience factors, the CD was a revolution that rapidly took over the industry.
The saddest part of the end this story has been the fact the the public at large has lost interest in High Fidelity and high quality music reproduction. Except for a couple struggling download options like Tidal or HDTracks, all the other sources used by the vast majority of the public today come in much lower resolutions and sound quality than the CD. And don't even mention vinyl, it's not even in the running with CD for quality. Soon the hipster fad for it will wear off when they get tired of getting up to turn the record all the while listening to the snap, crackle, and pops.
RIP CD, you were and are a great friend.