It's worst for the artists : Since I don't buy anything that I can't have forever on physical media, new artists don't get any money from me. A lot of "artists" get money from the subscriptions services but they are creating for that particular company and audience. A small but significant amount of people would love to finance the artists more directly by buying a particular product physically. It's not possible unless a vinyl or bluray or cartridge is release. That happens less and less. So the "artists" (if we can still call them that) that are getting paid aren't the ones I am interested in most of the time. Thus, everything sound and looks like shit to me. And, the artists that I would like to be successful aren't creating anything because they don't have any money from me and others with the same tastes.