I get it from your guys' views. As a collector beginning in 2014, though, it's a lot different journey. You guys have been collecting for decades. As someone very relatively new to the hobby, buying collected editions gives me easier access to all of the stories you guys were hunting for before they were bound into a single book. I'm more interested in having access to the stories than the single issues themselves. I want to read them after all. Quantity of quality stories > quantity of single issues for me.
I would never be able to read so many great comics if I went after all these vintage issues.