Yes. The point is not about that distributor can fail to use a good encoder (anything can happen), but that they can use a good one if they want to, and audible result will be the same as lossless.
When I buy music, I always try to buy it in lossless FLACs anyway. And then I encode it to Opus for playback. But for listening to something on-line, Opus would do just fine to begin with.
When I buy music, I always try to buy it in lossless FLACs anyway. And then I encode it to Opus for playback. But for listening to something on-line, Opus would do just fine to begin with.