Just because it’s mandated in cars, doesn’t mean people will listen, we’ve just got a new car at work with DAB+, I listened for a few hours driving around, then switched back to FM. Even at 128k I’d rather listen to 2CH on AM, the DAB+ is too flat & muddy sounding, FM is crisp, & AM has a nice warmth to it.
And I work with DAB+, I look at the DAB+ transmitters every day at work, & think what a waste of TX hall space & spectrum space. If the industry isn’t interested (other than CRA who have a barrow to push), then why would the listeners care, but then I guess my last post above answers that, crap sounding lossy compressed audio is the norm for listening now.