I couldn't hear a problem with properly-encoded high-bitrate MP3 when my ears were much, much younger, and I still cannot do so today.

I can play an MP3 anywhere that music files are played. I still can't do that with FLAC.

I know that FLAC is perfect, and that MP3 is lossy, and that such lossy formats have generational loss in re-encodes.

But I can either manage multiple overlapping collections of digital music and a conversion system, or I can manage a single collection and skip a lot of that inconvenience.

I chose simplicity.