Whatever scene, hobby or things that people take pleasure from be it football, music, cooking etc, they do it on varying levels. Some go all or nothing (like me, you and other OVO collectors), others dip their toe in and enjoy it for what it is (boots,downloads or the latest tesco top 100 northern soul CD etc.)
The Ironic thing here is that the scene will probably have to totally crash and burn for it to do full circle. I live in Peckham and the South London Soul Train is 10 mins from where I live. That happens every two weeks and has 600/700+, sometimes more, with the average age of 18-24. You can guarantee that 99% of people that attend couldn't care less what format the music is played from and I bet they love it!