Call us crazy, but music was a whole lot more fun when it was on physical media. Or perhaps just easier to use, especially in the car. Whether your particular vintage favored CDs, cassettes, or even 8-tracks, being able to fish out that favorite album and slam it in the player while never taking your eyes off the road was a whole lot easier than navigating a playlist on a locked phone, or trying to control an infotainment system through soft buttons on a touch screen.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://hackaday.com/2024/04/12/make-your-music-simpler-with-the-user-unfriendliest-cassette-deck-ever/