Is this MQA news a big deal?

All these DACs that sound better with these ridiculously high sample rates and the HF noise included in a 192 KHz file are all likely suffering from linearity issues and poor implementation of brick wall anti-aliasing filters. I don’t think MQA will fix anything on a well made DAC.

 A couple years ago I came across an informative analysis of MQA and I see current commentary on this site Real-HDAudio.com 

MQA is as controversial as religion at this point. I like it having it, but would stop short of calling it must have. At the very least there are stories like this to its credit;

http://https//www.stereophile.com/content/recording-april-2018-fairytales-original-master-edition-mqa

Interesting. The MQA version of Fairytales doesn’t sound right to my ears. I don’t have the vinyl to compare. Her vocals sound like she is singing slightly diminished intervals. Very fragile slightly dissonant harmonically thin voice. Piano sounds a bit off too.

Apart from that I totally don’t understand all the hooopla?

MQA. total garbage being sold as the Next Coming.

I am indifferent to an extreme.
I just bought a $7000 DAC (really a SACD player with digital inputs)
That does NOT have MQA.
So clearly I am putting my money where my mouth is.
I have more than enough media to live out my life without buying another item, if magically the Universe was to suddenly start selling ONLY MQA encoded dreck.
The main reasons folks should be worried is digital rights management. And one company controlling all media in a rather nefarious way.

As for me, I am old and have mine.
If you use the net for music, You should be concerned. MQA has no fairy tale ending.