For some people. Sure. But people are different and have different priorities - even within this forum - so one-size-fit-all recommendations will never work. Remember: tons of music lovers would see even the attention paid by people on this forum to DACs and other audio gear to be excessive. "All you actually need is..." (fill in the blank with that person's personal criteria...)
Nut here, signing in!
I used my old Technic's turntable here and there in the 90's/2000's to play my old records. It was mostly for fun - had that nostolgiac old vinyl sound too. Then I got my father-in-law's cast of Micro Seiki turntable and a good cartridge. Then vinyl playback sounded damned good on my high end system. Still had that nostalgic vinyl sound, but better and the desire to spin vinyl was starting to compete with my listening to my digital set up (full res CDs, higher res downloads and Tidal streamed to my Benchmark DAC). Started buying more newly released records and...audiophile that I am...upgraded to my current high-mass german-made Transrotor turntable and a better cartridge. Mamma mia! Now vinyl was sounding so clean and resolved and rich I actually started preferring the sound of many records over my digital source! It completely revitalized my enthusiasm for both listening to and collecting music. So was it a stupid choice? Sure didn't work out bad for me!
Well...maybe speak for yourself? ;-)
It certainly is about sound quality for me...as well as the other aspects that go along with using a turntable and listening to vinyl.
I have that option available via my digital system. Sounds fantastic. So it's not like I don't know what I'm comparing vinyl too. I go back and forth.
But vinyl also can sound fantastic. I've played LPs for guests that have left them looking like they've seen a ghost, it "seemed so realistic." And since vinyl often sounds a bit different from digital with a sonic quality I enjoy, I spin it as much for how it sounds as for the other fun aspects.