I think people are collecting vinyl because its nice to have an artifact. It's the same reason that people still read books. You can have it all on a kindle or you can have the artifact, like a trophy up on the shelf. I collect because it's nice to see, hold, smell the package. As someone that has released two albums, I know how much time, effort and resources go in to making the packaging/artwork for an album. I enjoy that. This is something that MP3's cannot replicate. It's not about sound for me, it's about physicality.The real question is: are these new vinyls directly recorded, or edited digitally first?
There are very, very few people recording analog these days. In fact, I think there's like one company left making tape. Everything is recorded digitally. Therefore, it's not really even a question.