Some people say stage theater is greater than film as an artform. These people must also think that the rickshaw is superior to the automobile

Apples & oranges. Just like live music and recorded music.

And performers will tell you the same, and few are truly adept at both. Some feed off the audience and get energized from them, leading to spontaneous improvisation seldom caught on film or in recording studios. Other are more adept at playing to the camera or the technical enhancement.

See I thought you'd be into that sort of thing. Get some mummers to travel round and do backflips in front of the local yokels for five bits a gander.

I thought that people had wised up and stopped being hipsters