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RE: CD sounded so 'perfect' they then introduced HDCD, 24/96, DVD-Audio, SACD and ?..

"Why is it that digital, a much newer method, is not allowed refinement as it develops?"

Because the designers of digital audio had mostly preferred banking on the "perfect sound" notion being accurate, discounting the cited flaws in the process as "delusional audiophile speak" ("perfect sound" means zero flaws), and spent most of their time coming up with design and marketing gimmicks applied to existing technology rather than tangibly improving the technology.

This is why a typical CD player marketed in 2008 sounds worse (IMO) than that marketed in 1988.

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