I thought cd's were pretty cool when they came out (I was just a kid at the time and my biggest inconvenience was skipping between songs on cassette tapes), but CD's are just another way to deliver music digitally and in the current era of seemingly infinite digital storage space and fast internet speeds, just don't make sense as a delivery format.
I didn't really grow up with vinyl, but somehow ended up as a house music dj in college that mixed vinyl on 2 Technics 1200 mkii turntables and Rane/Pioneer mixers. You couldn't get electronic house music on any other format. Vinyl was it. Today seems like it's 100% digital downloads from the likes of
www.beatport.com. IMO, for djing, there is nothing cooler than spinning vinyl.
I had a blast in the Zu Audio room at Axpona a few years back spinning vinyl. They had a Neve mixer they were running 2 turntables through, which was pretty cool, and they let show goers jump behind their equipment and play music, which was even cooler. I think I spun records for over 2 hours.
The future of analog vs. digital is, vinyl vs. streaming.