Maybe there is a pleasure in handling physical media I guess. Else people having vinyl also would have done that if it was inconvenient. Different people with different strokes.I find very few reasons apart from cd's looking good on a shelf to use them - they are digital anyway.
Just record/rip them using the best player you like and play those versions digitally. For comparison, you can play CD on a player your choice vs the ripped version and make changes to the amp or DAC tone and filter settings to match the CD tone. Might be the most convenient way to play CD's.