The end of physical media is neigh

Not to be argumentative, but... Well sort of. When you "own"... you do not really. You must pay property taxes and maintenance on the house. You become a slave to your stuff in some ways.  If you own physical stuff, then you have to store it, it clutters your life. It really depends on what. When you can have access to over 10 million albums for the monthly price of one CD, then there is more freedom... and virtually no cost. 

With over ten million albums...it’s not a very restrictive list. Also, Qobuz has over half a million high resolution albums. It is very seldom that I find an album not available.

More importantly, when you have access to all that music your focus changes over time to listen to new music instead of the same old stuff. The re-listening to the same stuff had a lot to do with the required investment to have it in your library. Now the entire world of music is available to you. I don’t relisten to old stuff very often any more. The sound quality of my digital rig equaled my analog rig about four or five years ago. My listening habits started to change a little at first and after a couple years changed rapidly leaving old stuff to collect dust most of the time.

I am happy to move on. I used to have a laser disc collection, then a room dedicated to (three walls of racks) VHS tapes, then DVD , then Bluray... I only bought a couple... what was the next thing... 4K disks. I am so done with physical media. A waste of resources and fills up huge amount of space in millions of homes. I moved on to Kindle books, then Audible. We had rooms full of books. Now only a few hundred leather bound.