@Geoffrey W
Similar, grew up with vinyl and it was a PITA.
Still have a turntable & retained "best" of my former vinyl collection but generally listen to digital versions (though in quite a few cases I did rip vinyl to digital rather than re-purchase on CD).
Miss album sleeves though - decent sized artwork, big enough for, on occasion, a folded poster to be included (though the Frankenchrist DKs poster was not one to put on the wall) tgough more typical was lyric sheets - miss those a lot. Sometimes the sleeve was a bit of fun in its own right, like the original School's Out cover that folded into a table). But above all, a great surface to skin up on, flat, some friction and a good size.