Might want to talk to DVD and Netflix. Physical copies are on life support, and you won't be able to buy them anymore except through GamePass or equivalent service.
This is what Microsoft wants, because they can continue to charge a subscription price for decades old games (there's a few selections on GamePass if you want decades-old games).
It’s okay, it isn’t the first time that the interests of “the market” are in opposition to one’s values and it won’t be the last.
Most people don’t have the same values as you seem to have. That doesn’t mean that either are wrong, but it does mean you might be tilting at the wrong windmill
> because if the market is any indication, people prefer a fixed cost subscription service.
I'm not sure what you're debating here. I'm saying physical media is dead. You're saying both they're not and they are?