Hard truth that most people aren't willing to come to terms with.

I like physical media, I really do. I still own probably 200 PS3 discs and about that much between PS2 and 4, but I've not bought a physical game in probably a full decade. It makes no sense with the current market and my last ~8 years of gane purchases have been entirely on Steam, obviously digital. The only things worth playing are a handful of genuinely great indie games and those would've never got a physical release anyway.

*Tl;dr: if you're actually mad about this, come to PC and you'll realize you don't care that much about digital games, you just care because Sony is taking away the last thing that reminds you of the good ol' days when they were good.