And other enjoy the nostalgia of cassettes and eight tracks. You can hardly walk down my block without seeing someone listening to a 30 year old walkman. That's probably more of a style thing.
Part of what I enjoy about listening to tapes is in fact its subpar quality. The main reason I listen to tapes is because my two cars both take cassette tapes, so it's more a reason to have something to listen to while driving. But in a car, the small distortions on a tape are easily missed compared to listening at home. So it works great for me.
(Plus the silence at the end of each side is a great break every 40 minutes or so.)
I remember cassettes as convenient but with a lot of issues with sound quality.