I'm from the cassette era but at this point I think they are just plastic pollution. I have a single 16GB thumb drive in my car with an absurd amount of music

I'm from the cassette era but at this point I think they are just plastic pollution. I have a single 16GB thumb drive in my car with an absurd amount of music in it. It would take hundreds of tapes to store the same amount of music. Plus, mp3 files can store metadata for the songs: author, artist, year, etc.