2015 is the year of streaming...as it has been for a few years now.My God it's 2015, it's kinda a thing.
I guess it depends on how you use your Mac. I've owned two Macs with super drives and had no problem whatsoever with either one. And I pushed plenty of CDs and DVDs thru the drives. Slot loading drives that Apple uses are certainly more finicky than tray loaders but I wouldn't refer to them as "crap".