WEll, I agree with all you have said, but you are clouding persoanl preference to what the actual market is saying, and the overall market is saying it wants digital.

People aren`t even buying stereos any more, they are buying these damn one speaker idock things.
I hate it, I hate mp3, but it`s everywhere.
In the same way that the old hifi purists shat a load about CD, look at how prevailent it became.