Do you really have to use drum samples on rock songs these days?

Gonna sound like an old man here but I’m in a low budget rock n roll band and I absolutely despise drum samples. My predicament is this: my band just recorded 10 songs in a free library studio (surprisingly that is a thing lol) with 4 sm57s and 2 58s to record the drums.

My current producer and the producer I’m cheating on him with both immediately go to using samples and while yes they do sound more modern I wanna know why they couldn’t just use my lower-fi drums. Is there something I’m missing? And yes I have questioned my producer on it and he keeps saying if I wanna compete with today’s music you have to do it… but I’d rather sound like the lo fi independent rock band we are than use fake drums.