Also, in the 90's they often cheeped out put an entire album on a single lp. Most albums of the era were running 60+ minutes so they were squeezing half an hour per side like some K-Tel shit.
A few things.
60 min on LP is not possible, not stereo anyway, and not needed since most albums from the LP days are way shorter. Once CD was standard they were aiming for 60+min where before the max on a single album was 44, usually like 36 min. This didn't really happen until the 90s and by then almost nothing was coming out on wax in the US or Japan except for 12" singles. Most prog fans know this time/space thing from experience. Many songs from 70s bands were chosen to be as long as a single side can hold. Famously, Tales of Topographic Oceans is four songs like this, two LPs, each side/song is under 20 min, I think. By 1997 it was honestly hard to get any new LPs from any band that wasn't punk, hiphop, or on a European label. Vinyl albums pretty much stopped being made in the 90s but the 12"s flowed like rivers. To get 60 min of stereo on an LP you'd have to turn the gain way down and reduce the stereo as well. It would be super shit, I've never seen anything like this. All my 90s LPs are less than 40 min,
Aside from that, I honestly really hate the modern trend of burning through as many discs as possible. The sound can be, and usually is, louder but that only helps people with shitty stereos. Meanwhile everything costs more to buy, more to ship, takes up more space, and takes twice as much flipping. If there is a solid premise, like New Order's 10LP version of Music Complete or 45RPM audiophile pressings, that's one thing, but to be honest I think its just easier to train new people on how to cut records if they are allowed double the space and since kids now seem to be willing to pay any price for records there isn't any incentive to not do it.
EDIT: I lied. I have Pet Shop Boy's Nightlife (1999) and the Wiki says its 52:02 which is pretty impressive. It is a little quiet but I never thought it sounded bad. Now it does, now it has decades of play on it, but it didn't bother me in 1999.