I agree. I find a nice, shiny, new substantial feeling record really satisfying.
In fact, for me, the whole 'physical aesthetic appeal' of vinyl wasn't that much of a thing, for a long time. That's because I'd long moved on to enjoying digital sound, and records were relegated to the past. I had a turntable I kept around to occasionally set up and spin some of my old records that I was too lazy to get rid of. But it was always more of a trip to the past (though I did enjoy certain aspects of the sound as well, as a change from digital, but still preferred my digital system). So records as a physical thing were the old creased things-of-the-past I had sitting in a pile, and the only record stores I knew tended to be some stragglers from the record age selling second hand vinyl. So vinyl was a "found in dusty old record shops" thing.
What really hooked me was once the vinyl revival got up to steam, I started noticing lots of new vinyl being produced. As a soundtrack fan I found some fabulous re-issues of soundtracks, and many being pressed for the very first time, so I started grabbing some of those. The packaging they do for soundtracks in particular tends to be stellar. So receiving and opening a beautifully designed cover (which even felt great to hold) and then slipping out
utterly pristine, new vinyl to play on the turntable felt like a whole new experience. The beauty of the object and the fact so much new vinyl was being produced, made vinyl feel fresh and new again. For quite a while I only bought new vinyl. Later once my habits turned more to vinyl listening I upgraded my turntable and started tracking down old, hard to find LPs as well that I really wanted (many of which never made it to digital).
I know there is the vision of the vinyl lover sitting, listening to a record lovingly holding the big cover reading the cover notes, but I rarely do that. My turntable is in a separate room from my speakers and I listen with the lights really low, so reading while listening would be a struggle anyway.