What you hear in analog seeing as analog is essentially infinite medium is instruments dancing within their own dynamic ranges as opposed to digital which grabs everything together as a whole and tells it when to go up and down
Bro what planet are you living on? This is a wild take and means nothing in the context of music production and recording.
Analog vastly restricted dynamic range due to noise floor competition, and most of the flavor we like is a clamping down on dynamic range into total harmonic distortion. If anything digital recording has vastly increased the dynamic range possibilities that weren’t possible before in exchange for a very hard ceiling of loudness.
I’d take a look inward for all your wild distortion problems. Half of those scenarios won’t cause distortion under like any circumstance.
Since when do higher sample rates not matter? The anti aliasing filter in 44.1 alone will degrade the sound.