Exactly. I’ve even heard some people say they took Vinyl and “remastered” it to HiRez.
As if it will sound any better than the original recording.
We see movie studios take old analog films that look like crap and “remaster” them to 4K digital all the time. Some look a little better, and some still look like crap depending on the original source.
It’s the same way with audio, except it’s a lot easier to convert loRez to HiRez audio.
So what’s the point paying for all these so-called 192/24 audio files that came from 44/16 original sources?
I do sound depressing. Probably a lot happier telling myself that all these 192/24 files were originally recorded in the studio at 192/24.