3 things need to be said...
1. the only reason MQA exists is for the portion of the population that wants audiophile quality that is portable.
2. laziness. there are times when I’m listening to my record collection and don’t want to get up every 10-15 min to flip and/or change record and ....
3. argue all u want about quality, sound, detail etc. All and I mean ALL of this is subjective. You could science the sh*t out of this with all the meters, graphs etc. pointing to better quality etc and it all come down to this---my ears are different than your ears...PERIOD.
It goes back to the tube/solid state argument. what sounds good to me may not sound good to you.
Argue that