There is one definite improvement offered by digital music, which weirdly enough is the flip side of the criticism that ending the length limit imposed by the vinyl format has resulted in all sorts of filler material and stuff that at one time would have been left on the editing room floor for good reason filling up releases and lowering music standards. If you enjoy orchestral music or opera digital music has ended the limitations imposed by physical carriers and the need to break the performance illusion by having to get up and turn a record over and then go onto the next record. CD improved this hugely by making most orchestral music fit within a single disc and no need to swap discs (although there were always outliers which still needed two discs) but even the CD format didn't really fit opera. Now it doesn't matter what you listen to, you hit play and are able to enjoy the full performance with no interruptions. Even Celibidache's Bruckner 8....... The CD transformed the accessible of a lot of music, such as the Bruckner symphonies which never really fitted into the vinyl format.
My biggest complaint with DVD was that they didn't make the DVD disc system itself fully compatible with the Redbook CD-DA file system. I so desperately wanted to be able to put whole operas onto a
single disc and put it in a standard home machine and just hit play. I did burn a few DVD-A compatible discs, but my Denon occasionally would glitch with them, so I gave up.
Then I ripped the majority of my CD collection and spent ages coming up with the perfect tagging system for all classical works (not as simple as people might think haha!), as well as file naming and folder organization, etc., so that sorting and searching would be natural and easy for what I wanted (you have to take into account various systems and the way they sort numerically and alphabetically with files and so on, it wasn't logical numeric order, so leading zeros were required--thanks Microsoft haha!). Then I found random clicks as files got tiny corruptions for no apparent reason, which is something I never had to worry about with just playing the CD. It made it like listening to LP or cassette for me, having to wonder if I'd be taken out of the ecstasy of my music by a stupid and very audible glitch.
So then I gave up ripping and playing from a computer, and I've just been playing the actual CDs again, and I deal with changing discs on the longer works such as operas, oratorios, masses, a few symphonies from gasbags like Bruckner and Mahler haha! Although the CD has unexpectedly increased in 'maximum' length, from 74 minutes to around 84 safely* (I have at least a few from BIS) by decreasing the track pitch below the Redbook standard, but within the allowed % tolerance. This has allowed Karajan's second to last recording to be re-released on a single disc (Bruckner 8 with Vienna). Blu-ray audio, of course, holds hours and hours, but I can't just load up my own 16/44.1 CD opera rips and put them on a single Blu-ray and put it in the player and go, so it does nothing for my existing collection, and at this point I don't really want to buy all my favorites again on another format, even if the record companies weren't so slow these days with releases of classical. There are only about a dozen core performances that I will continue buying on new format releases until I die, and they are all recordings made by Leontyne Price.
*There is at least one commercial CD out there at 86 minutes, I think, but I have no idea if it plays properly on the majority of machines or not. I've never had an issue with my BIS discs at 82+ minutes, nor with my DG 82 min 58 sec disc lol
P.S. The main thing I dislike about 2 or more discs for an opera isn't getting up to switch in itself, it's the horrible cases for the discs! When most companies switched to those slim multi-disc cases, they had to change the center spindle/grippy thing, and some CDs feel like you'll crack them trying to get them out! I'll often put the discs into separate standard "jewel boxes" next to the original case just to avoid that nuisance.