Pitchfork article
https://pitchfork.com/news/high-definition-vinyl-is-happening-possibly-as-early-as-next-year/
The slashdot comments seem to echo your view
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/04/12/2320221/high-definition-vinyl-is-coming-as-early-as-next-year
a couple of choice ones
"This scheme is a shoe-in for the 2018 "polished turd of the year" award."
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Or.. now hear me out on this one... or ... we could just, you know, send the digitally converted audio, you know, without converting it back into a bumpy piece of plastic.
I know this might sound radical, but it seems to me that converting analog sound to digital format then to a digital 3d map then to a laser-cut stamper then to a piece of bumpy vinyl then to a vibrating stylus and into a varying electrical current to drive an amplification system to run the speakers that you listen to might just be a little more complicated than just taking the digital format for storage and transport and converting that back into analog sound at playback."