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I think not too many of you guys on here must be really serious piano players; because, if you were, we wouldn't even be having this conversation.
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I agree 100%. And I'm a drummer!
There is a difference between a Keyboard player who wants a piano sound and a Pianist who wants a
piano.
At a studio where I engineer we have a lovely Yamaha C7. It is the centerpiece of that studio's business. We get a lot of jazz, blues and of course, classical which would all be compromised by a digital piano. It is
true that these instruments 'bring their own bread' - though in today's market paying off an investment of that size will take some time.
We recently worked with an amazing artist doing a solo blues piano project. He brought along his digital piano which he intended to use on a couple of tunes for 'variety'.
Needless to say, it stayed in its case for the entire week.
Before one session we listened to a CD that had a sampled piano, (in a band mix) and it sounded very nice and almost believable, but when we turned on the mics for the first time that day and heard the Yamaha again...
It's not snobbery or elitism, it's just a fact of life. Not everybody needs a real piano, but for those that do...