Average consumers will consume anything that is average thinking that it is good. Audiophiles are not that.
Average is for Normal.
As for R-2-r vs digital, digital has a severe and so far unfixable analog to digital conversion issue, a fundamental issue -that is seldom realized or known at all - by the adherents of digital vs the adherents of analog.
Analog to digital converters are fundamentally screwt, and cannot record a signal correctly. The end.
R2R, on the other hand, is virtually perfect, re this fundamental problem that ALL A/D has.
R2R, is big, clunky, almost messy..but it works. It really really works. Digital is cleaner, nicer, more neat freak simpleton-ish friendly. But it fails in the fundamentals.
So..work vs no work, and analog wins here, if fundamental operational correctness is the desire. Digital is a car that won't start but fakes the dance, like the bear....very nicely, for those who don't pay too close an attention to what is actually going on. As in a average, or normal.
This is not about normal or average and never was and never will be. This is about perfection in all critical areas, and in areas little noted and little understood by Mr and ms average.