Is it all worth it?

There's also the experience of watching the source transducer do its work in plain sight. That's always been a little magical for me...:-)

Hey Bros & Sis's in lock-down!  
Ain't it a shame when one gets their system going to its max, we're unable to go visit nor have visitors.  Grrrr.   My "solution" to listening to great vinyl playback, is to have friends.  My pal has a huge sound space with amazing playback gear, where vinyl still rules.  At age 73, I held out for digital source until the late 90's for digital sound to came of age...enough to strike my emotions, given good sources... mostly digital stuff engineered (or re-engineered) post 1990.  There are earlier wonderful exceptions like Proprius..."Jazz at the Pawnshop." The sound remains utterly amazing by today standards.  The music suffers from lack of continuity...a random set, but the organic sound is indisputable.  My friend's vinyl copies are off the charts, musically. 
My hundreds of carefully done, select lossless rips are still my main source. To rip, I shut everything down, clean and demagnetize the cd, using a thin Marigo CD mat with double sided tape in the CD Rom for the rips.  I've tried Amazon hi res and Qobuz streaming.  I have settled on TIDAL...enjoying the ability to do full MQA through my LG V30 streams to my OTL headphone amp and single unfold through my music PC Win10 - Foobar to main system.  For Vets, they have a military discount. 
Recently, on the advice of my longtime digital audio Tech, I've added a plug-in device KAZROG TrueIron for a bit of old tube like transformer warmth to the digital.  Inexpensive, better harmonics, no harm done.  I am never sad to come home to my rig after visiting with vinyl.  The price and quality of inexpensive DACs are amazing right now.  My vinyl buddy lives where bandwidth is limited.  Until that's resolved, he downloads high resolution files to his laptop and hard wires the playback to his preamp through the Audioquest Dragonfly Cobalt.  Does it equal his uber tube dac, no...but it is very, very good.  For a few hundred dollars, there are amazing options out there.
Finally uberwaltz, anything you find most worthwhile..it is.  More peace, Friends in audio.  Pin

If one can afford a good vinyl setup it's worth it. I got back into this hobby with a digital headphone rig. Then slowly built my two channel system without vinyl. It does take a commitment for vinyl. My vinyl sound now surpasses a great digital system. I do listen or stream more often due to convienince.

I cannot understand why anyone plays vinyl when there is streaming technology available?  No noise from the stylus tracking on a vinyl record.  With all the hi res recordings they have to sound better.  Unless, people love to hear the noise from playing vinyl.  Just don't get it.  You can select from huge libraries at Tidal from the comfort of your sofa without having to get, change the record, search for another and then clean that one.