I appreciate your point but I don't think my comment was hyperbolic.
Compared to any other common means of audio reproduction - reel to reel tape, CD, MP3, various lossy or lossless streaming formats, Dolby Digital, Atmos, even cassette tape, vinyl deviates the most from the original master recordings and it's not particularly close - it has the highest noise floor, introduces the most artifacts, has problems like wow and flutter that are significantly diminished in other analog reproduction techniques and simply do not exist in digital.
Even in optimal conditions - playing on a several thousand dollar turntable that's got a lot of complicated engineering to reduce wow and flutter as much as possible, playing a brand new, heavy vinyl record using a high-end stylus to reduce surface noise and preserve high frequencies - the amount of noise, distortion, and artifacts being produced by that system is several orders of magnitude higher than a CD - for example, typical surface noise on vinyl is around -30dB (though that will vary based on the record and the stylus, it doesn't get much better than that), around 60dB higher than 16 bit digital (60dB is the entire dynamic range of reel to reel tape, fwiw).
It can still sound good - even great - but that's a statement on the limits of our ears and what kinds of aberrations our brains find pleasing, rather than a statement about the fidelity of vinyl records.