What happened to Yamaha electronics?

I'm not sure what all the angst is about. Yamaha is still a top audiophile contender in my book. I have an A-S801 Integrated amp that's so sweet and functional, its amazing in what it can do. The build quality is totally on point with a solid, double deck chassis and a gigantic, very well isolated toroidal transformer. In the DAC section, Yamaha selected the 32-bit, 2-channel SABRE™ Premier Audio DAC from ESS Technology. Its the same chip all the audiophilesle sware by. How about showing a little love for a solid piece of Hi-Fi gear from a great company. All of this from a guy who's used Yamaha mixing consoles in the studio and in live audio settings for decades.

Like I stated above, had an all Yamaha system, hated it, moved on. I have absolutely zero love for Yamaha.  

The current crop of Yamaha HiFi components are quite good, easily competitive with alternative options in their respective price classes. The A-S2200 and 2100 are a couple of the best sounding integrateds I have heard regardless of price. 

Their NS-5000 speakers are true high end. 

Yamaha possesses R&D resources that many other brands can only dream of. 

Looking for expensive Yamaha? Here you go:

https://www.safeandsoundhq.com/products/yamaha-gt-5000-high-fidelity-turntable?_pos=1&_psq=product_type%3ATurntable+AND+yamaha&_ss=e&_v=1.0

There's a lot more to building a good CD/SACD player than just the chip.  If that was the case, I guess some of the Chinese mass produced, Amazon sold, DAC, basically the same one sold under a half dozen different names for cheap, is all you need.  I own a CD-S2100 and can tell you it's not just a 35Ib  hunk of chassis.  It would take too long here to go into detail about its design, but it delivers the goods.  FYI, I also own an Esoteric KO-3XD if you need to compare to something else.  Also, for fun I own a Philips Magnavox  CDB-560 with original remote that looks and operates like it was built last month, utilizing the Philips TDA 1541 ladder DAC, the same one that Demetris Backlavas, designer of the Ypsilon CDT-100(an aquaintance took delivery of one of these made to order works of art a few months back), said he would have used in the design of his machine if they were available.  I have a pretty good handle on what the Yamaha is all about.