I’ve made four changes in my music journey since I started buying vinyl in my youth. Vinyl => CD => MP3s => streaming. It’s been a good 12-15 years I’d say since I bought a CD. I stream these days for the convenience, but you’re not wrong on any of your points. And I do run across artists whose entire body of work is not available because licensing is hard. Sometimes that one key album is missing.

Reintroducing physical media would mean a complete rethink of our lifestyle. We downsized, and because we were over a decade into the digital lifestyle all those old CDs and DVDs were donated. There would need to be a rethink of where this new media would live. And the non-trivial outlay of acquiring all the equipment to play said media again.

Could be done. But it would be a whole thing.