It's rampant in the audio world, for similar reasons. Imagine after decades of low fidelity tape delay, followed by bucket brigade chips providing analog delay

It's rampant in the audio world, for similar reasons. Imagine after decades of low fidelity tape delay, followed by bucket brigade chips providing analog delay without the maintenance involved with tape machines, getting into the 80s and finally getting pristine, perfect echoes that can last forever... and within 15 years, people are clamoring for the old, error-prone tape and analog delay units, and by the early 21st century, there are high quality digital models that emulate things like splices in the tape, and the age of the components in the playback device. Turns out they all have their uses. Why not give artists a more broad palette to work from? There's a place for documentary reproduction, and there's room for creative experimentation. When you get back to the basic idea, it's all goofy. With sound, you're, what, vibrating a diaphragm to create an electrical signal that passes through dozens, if not hundreds of components in a preamplifier, before it even gets to a tape machine, or a modern audio interface. And then playing it back pushes it all through more components in order to charge up a magnet and vibrate some plastic. What really is the most 'authentic' way to capturing an image to a medium? Glad we've got choices. Mostly glad I don't have to pay to develop film anymore.