Why do YOU love Vinyl/or hate vinyl

uberwaltz-like I mentioned, I've had 2 very good r2r decks in the last few years and I have recorded digital music to them. The Otari has very good specs and sounded very good but wasn't any better than straight out of a dac. I bought the r2r to record my vinyl so in case I got rid of my tt or my vinyl albums would become noisy, I would have analog recordings of my albums. It was much cheaper to rebuy the bad album than to buy the tape to record at 15ips

I have used both and to my ears since I added a quality usb cable 
and the Excellent Lampizator vacuum tube dac , turntables have No advantage ,i have a purpose build Solid state drive server for my cd,dsd collection , Roon with all the bonus info and album art
i no longer have to deal with cleaning every record ,deal with pops
and static, the Lampizator is the 1st dac I have owned that makes CDs sound like A Real event . The designer has a great ear 
and even their New entry level Amber-3 dac at around $3k beats any dac at $6k out there I have heard ,and you can change the flavor a bit with tube rolling . their Atlantic dac has multiple 
tubes choices you can use to suit your taste exactly the way you like it for around $5 k which is around what a respectable turntable 
setup goes for. Finally digital that-gets you involved. The better the recording the more  you are there event. Even Qabuz,or Tidal  sound great these non oversampling dacs with the magic of the Vacuum tubes is my cup of tea. I can pick my favorite say 10 CDs and play them in order or random. I am thrilled . If you want to spin  your turntable go for it. You should though at least experience a great dac like the Lampizator I think you would be shocked at just how defined your music can be ,and the convenience, to just rip-a cd, download  a Hirez cd from HD trax , or anywhere else on line, Flac or Wav files.DSD files are limited in number  but take things to a higher level still. At least experience it .they at Lampizator even give you a 2 week money back guarantee.
Either way just my view point after 40 years in Audio .

Didn't read what came earlier...as yet.
Just a quick note.
I like the naturalness, the freely dynamic sound. Unrestrained.
I don't like the clicks and pops, the fragility, the set up, the damage to vinyl, the sixteen ways it can go wrong.
My TT15S1 has been off line for one year because the stylus broke. I bought a replacement cartridge that sounded nicer, more open. But I simply haven't used the TT or connected it back up since then. I somewhat dread its use, as a difficult inconvenient medium.
I envy others who have mastered it.

@audioman58 nice story about Lampi...what model do you use? Recently I read the entire Lampi postings on WBF. Anyway just a quick inquiry and you can PM me if you want so we don't sidetrack this post.

It's all about the sound; analogue sounds better (i.e. more realistic) than digitized music. Sound is inherently analogue; it's physical. Only in Star Trek does a physical thing get digitized (converted) in one place and then reappear (converted again) without changing its essence. 

The appeal of digital is its low cost and convenience. Its sound quality has improved, but in a side-by-side comparison, digital always loses to a good-quality vinyl setup.