> so there’s no longer a really viable technical reason to stick with compressed audio That's a pretty big stretch. Lossless is great for people who care about

> so there’s no longer a really viable technical reason to stick with compressed audio That's a pretty big stretch. Lossless is great for people who care about it, but I don't think it needs to be the standard. Quite a lot of people to this day have pretty terrible network connections, even in the US.