It is a gimmick, and it seems like you bought it, hook, line and sinker...but it wasn't always a gimmick. At some point, vinyl was the standard. It has lost that position since, but to not admit that these record producers are capitalizing on nostalgia (both real and fabricated) is folly. You can easily have some 'me and my music' time with superior digital mediums without the need to get up every ~16 minutes and deal with a mechanical limitation that can break immersion. It's fine to like a gimmick, but don't dismiss a reasoned explanation of why vinyl is not superior just because you got sold on something the rest of us left behind.