I have spend many long hours in recording studios and have sat next to some of the greatest producers/engineers of our day. To paint a soundscape with 48 tracks is an art that is all but dead. Modern recordings are done on laptops in the first class sections of Airplanes.
That says it all, I think.
I will on occasion pull an actual real album out of my closet, pick the correct styli cartridge for the record and put it in my Technics 1200 (The sole survivor of my first "Audiophile" phase in 1980) and enjoy the good old days.
I just wish I had kept my Maggies and my Bryston amp...
Everything now is compromise.