Native DSD versus DoP

Just like @mikelavigne I rarely choose DSD from the library unless there’s a specific album I’d like to hear in DSD or when I like a certain recording in high-res and want to compare it to its DSD counterpart. Another case is when Roon shuffles in a DSD track from the library when it spins Roon radio.
As to DACs, I owned a Bricasti M3 that featured Bricasti’s proprietary DSD 1 bit DAC. I could choose between that or DSD PCM using the conventional path with Analog Devices DAC chip. Bricasti accepted native DSD. I preferred its proprietary DSD DAC in that case. 
I now have Meitner MA3i that doesn’t accept native DSD. It’s an FPGA DAC that up-converts everything to DSD regardless of incoming bit rate. Meitner DSD over PCM sounds amazing playing local DSD files. So as I said earlier, don’t sweat it. It’s fine if the DAC supports DoP only. 

there was a time when optimizing native dsd was significant. 10+ years ago dacs still sounded a bit harsh with PCM. they were just not quiet enough. so ideally we pursued pcm converted to dsd and better yet dsd native files and dacs that kept dsd pure in their playback. dacs had to do all sorts of strong armed things to make PCM listenable.

but that equation somewhat changed when dac technology evolved, noise lowered and finding a musical sounding dac for PCM became reasonable. 

this is not to say that native dsd does not still have their fans. but it’s now more a matter of preference than advantage. the best dacs sound fantastic with either dsd or pcm. and mostly i prefer PCM. i do have 8+ terabytes of dsd files, but rarely choose them unless the music is preferred. and mostly the best current performances and recordings are high rez pcm, so that is what i choose.

i’m referring to recently recorded classical music, which is mostly what i listen to. much more of it is high rez pcm than dsd. music first, then format for me. and i mostly listen to streaming.

Depends on the DAC design. But I wouldn’t sweat it. DoP sounds just fine. 

For what it is worth, in my experience, Macht Nichts (Makes No Difference)