Even if the master wasn't digital, how many vinyl mastering engineers used a digital reverse RIAA? I have a ton of vinyl records myself, never understood why a

Even if the master wasn't digital, how many vinyl mastering engineers used a digital reverse RIAA? I have a ton of vinyl records myself, never understood why anyone would say they sound better. Vinyl is a compressed format, even if the compression is analog. There is significant loss of signal in the whole signal chain. You need to do reverse RIAA (compression), then you fabricate a master, then you press vinyl from this master which is only good for a few thousand presses, then you have the pickup and at last the RIAA preamp (decompression)...