Vinyls are sometimes preferred because people like white noise, same as tube amps.

Granted some CDs are mastered like garbage, and that led to some bad press for awhile. But you can master a CD so that it sounds exactly, as in mathematically exactly, as a vinyl record, if so desired.

It is also possible to make a digital amplifier that sounds exactly identical to vacuum tubes.

Humans have well and mastered the art of shaping sound waveforms however we want.

Most records these days use CDs as masters, sadly.