Clue: I'm not the one manufacturing anything in this thread
I prefer physical, but they are rare on PCs. The are other things PCs bring consoles don't (free online, possibility of community modding, no generations so your whole library is playable all the time). On consoles I buy physical whenever possible, but sometimes it's not possible, specially when you live in a 3rd world country where publishers don't bother releasing physical
The point is, physical games are mostly present on PS5 discs, as they were in PS4 discs. You can argue they are on discs because Blue Ray are cheap compared to cards, true! But it's not true publishers don't put their games on discs. They do put their games on discs. They have patches for improving performance and bug fixes, or to add content later (in the cause of Astrobot, which get new maps after the release), but the base game is still 100% playable
This is an important distinction. On consoles, if you have a digital game that requires patches to be played once the servers are down you can no longer play the game. Your game has a expiring date to work, because if Sony or Nintendo shutdown their store you lose your game. It happened with two of my 3DS games recently. I can no longer download Fire Emblem Awakening and Fates DLCs, but at least I have the base game
On PCs this will not be an issue, because the servers will keep going for as long as the storefront is alive. The lack of generations and dedicated per-generation servers prevent Steam to simply shutdown and you lose access to your games
