I feel like this topic boils down to what the customer was intending to pay for.
It seems that the people that are upset with MoFi are disappointed that the vinyl that they paid for wasn't the result of wholly analog processes. In my mind, there's two primary reasons for this. First, they are willing to pay more for an all analog recording than they are for one that includes anything digital. There's value for them in maintaining the old school process. Second, they have a believe that all analog recordings sound better.
What's puzzling to me is that it seems like a lot of people considered the MoFi recordings to be to notch before they were aware of the process used to produce them. I recognize that there's some intrinsic value in owning an original recording as it's a collectors items that cannot be duplicated. I don't think that reproductions have any intrinsic sentimental value and the sound quality is the only thing for which they should be judged. It seems like the sound quality of the MoFi recordings should be the catalyst for opening minds to what is possible.
Audiophiles are funny creatures and I'm sure that there are some that will now be able to hear digital artifacts in the MoFi recordings now that they know that they are not all analog.
A song comes to mind:
There may be something there that wasn't there before
You know perhaps there's something there that wasn't there before
There may be something there that wasn't there before
