The entire point of gaming consoles is that we can stick a game in, turn it on, and we're more-or-less instantly in the game. Absent that fundamental benefit, why exactly would anyone want yet another locked down computing appliance in their house?
This is an example of "overthinking," also known as "underthinking" or "over-concluding."
Aka, a complete lack of critical thinking. You start with a claim, "the entire point... blah blah blah." Ok. Right there, at the start, you're already guaranteed to be saying something stupid. Preventable stupidity. Instead of a laughably-wrong statement of absolute fact, an intellectually honest person would start with an idea. "Is the reason people buy that _____?" Because you know you don't know. That much, we all know! When you make the assertion, you didn't do extensive market research to discover that. And even just a web search, "Why buy a game console?" would get you a whole slew of other reasons. And if you dug into it more, you'd find out that a game console generally has better graphics than a just a graphics card of the same price. It has nothing to do with being instantly-on. And... they're not instantly on. Even loading a game from internal storage that isn't true, but from a disk? Are you high? Or just stupid.
The real truth is that getting rid of physical disks when on your "trigger list," and when you saw the words you spewed a bunch of stupid shit just assuming that anything you say will be True and Just because fighting for disks makes you a Soldier of Good or some shit. Just shave your fucking neck, jeeze. Stop white knighting to protect the helpless disk.
Not even 0.01% of gamers want to be stuck with whatever made it past the line on release day, without any patches or updates. Not only has the market accepted subscriptions for games, the market demands the content updates that come with having and maintaining that subscription stream.