i completely get preferring analog media, so if it’s about the sound characteristics (that ‘warmth’), having physical media, etc fair enough. but if the goal of an audiophile is to get the highest quality reproduction of a recording wouldn’t CDs or FLACs be your best bet?
maybe this only really applies for newer music, perhaps digital releases for music recorded analogue are just digitized vinyl or reel to reel recordings but for music produced in DAWs the highest quality version available for that release would surely be either a CD or a digital FLAC release
Audiophiles are conservative, with a small c. The way things were done some half-century ago, with glowing vacuum tubes, ancient horn technology to match the low efficiency of such amplifiers, and analog recording mediums appear to have seeded a kind of culture which changes only as the generations themselves change.
As you correctly observe, the source of music production is almost invariably digital. Writing it into analog medium for playback makes relatively little sense compared to just offering the digital data.