@day7a1 - I can explain the attraction from my own point of view. I’ve loved and collected music for ages, humans have a recurring love of collections anyway. So there is that, but another reason for me was that, while everything is somewhat more settled now, for a long period throughout the 00s and early 10s, there were huge format wars when it came to file types. The humble mp3 has always been popular this era, but full resolution downloads were not easily available (if at all), there were issues around transparency and encoding, even simple things like the technical illegality of ripping your own CD, DAPs were nowhere near as versatile with file types....etc. etc.
All the while, I felt happy that if I owned the CD, at worst I could re-rip it to the latest and greatest format without having to repurchase, or I could have lossless and lossy copies depending on usage requirements, and I actually owned “a thing” for my money. If you stop subscribing to a streaming service, you have zero music. I will (hopefully) never be musicless.
I also really used to enjoy shutting the cacophony of familial noise from my life and getting lost in the CD liner notes and lyrics, I ended up far more immersed in the music that way and, regardless of where the future takes us, I’ll always have that little urge inside me to view an album as a thing worth owning as well as worth streaming.
I also appreciate the endless discovery options of streaming too. So I’m also very pleased with our new options, my CD collection blends well with my Tidal sub and Roon software, each informs the other seamlessly.
One final point, my vinyl collection simply cannot be touched by any streaming service. A vast percentage simply is not, and never will be, available on any streaming platform and even if it eventually became available, it would be months after it would have been useful in a DJ/club environment.
Hope that gives you an idea on why at least some of us are attached to physical media