If you don’t listen to vinyl because of the “pops, ticks, surface noise and endless fiddling with setup” you:
a) have shitty records
b) have a shitty turntable
c) have a shitty hi-fi
d) listen for sound not to music (which is why you bought that shitty hi-fi in the first place)
e) are an incredibly lazy nitwit
f) all of the above
If you don’t listen to vinyl because “it’s not accurate” you think you know a boat-load more than you actually know which prevents you from enjoying stuff (not just records).