Tidal removing all MQA

Vinyl and streaming or just quality digital files all have something to offer us audiophiles.  Quality sound, ease of playing, etc.  I go either way (No pun intended).  Sometimes I’ll just load up a bunch of music in JRiver and kick back to listen and other times I’ll do some series listening to vinyl.  Each sounds different but have something to offer.  I do prefer vinyl if it’s a good recording and good vinyl but other times a good digital recording completely mesmerizes me.  

Now back to what this thread is about, MQA.  When it first came out and I read the technical papers on it and I thought, this sounds like a scam to lock in a copyright patent for the company.  Doing something like Sony has always has tried.  When the audio company I was working for incorporated MQA into our DAC/streamers I was able to do a lot of serious listening through the years to it.  I’ve never really cared for it.  It definitely changed the sound and I felt it lost something, but that’s me.  The important thing here is that here is a company that tried to sell everyone a bill of goods that would lock in a ton of music with their proprietary patented encode/decode product.  Now it’s flopping, so they sell it off to recoup as much as they can.  
I still stick with it being just another scam from a “Sony” type plan.  And it failed!