I use digital, dial and vernier but prefer digital. To me it is all about having backup measuring devices. If your battery craps out and you don't have a spare on hand then it is really important to have something else you can use.
Under ten inches / 25 cm, it's one of several LCD digital for quick-switch between Metric and US as much as any other factor. "It's America". We use BOTH, and all the time.
OVER that size, (up to 40-inch - one full meter?) I seldom NEED one at all.
So I'm good with "obsolete" Verniers bought used-but-good as can sit forever without batteries a factor, nor fragile racks for a dial.
Not a lot to do with which one is "easy" to use. Not a big deal.
Vernier's were all we saw, "formative years", read plain as day and right away to any grey-hair.
Just about being a cheapskate as to having more "reach" in the metrology cabinet than otherwise economically justifiable.
Same again "extension" bars bought on the cheap for the gage block sets.
In theory, I can stack gage blocks to NINETY friggin' inches.
In theory. Only.
I hope we all know how silly that could get "in practice"?
Fussin' over what is actually a personal preference w/r calipers ain't all that much LESS silly, either.
Same as blanket-sharers. No need to convince anyone else. The uninvolved a thousand miles away ain't measuring YOUR parts.
Go with whatever works best for YOU.