I took DSP at the USCG from an amazing teacher by the name of Hartnett. He did the same thing to demonstrate that zero insertion and digital filtering wasn’t all it was cracked up to be.
He went out and bought up huge collections of albums predicting:
1. Morons would throw treasure out the window to make way for the CD.
2. CDs would eventually be exposed for what they were, and that not everything that should be preserved on CDs, would be.
He also warned that changing media was a convenient way for a civilization to forget all kinds of important recorded history, and that governments would one day use it as a tool.
The better mousetrap usually isn’t.
At least the change to CD wasn’t mandated by the government as cooling systems, televisions, toilets, and other items commonly used in the home were.