Remember those crazy 90s when games took up multiple CDs and had the option to be installed to internal storage for better performance? Apparently that's some advanced ancient mystery tech.

If that's the direction they want to go then people will be buying less and less games . This is just an excuse to make bigger profits.
The problem with digital games is they are not cheaper than physical copies , if they want people to go mostly digital at least give them incentive to do so and make more budget friendly.