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Clickbait. Dude bought a $5 used game disc and couldn’t play it because the PS5 Pro doesn’t have a disc drive.
Its a fair issue.
(Not a surprising one, the all digital console does what it says on the tin.)
But it is a fair issue to raise as a defect with the proposal the Pro offers.
It's a valid POV. My take is opposite: All the CDs and DVDs I ever bought will eventually fail to work, the disc drives will fail to work too. My Steam account is 21 years old. I can still play games I bought 21 years ago, even on my Steam Deck and desktop Linux PCs.
Whilst I don't care about game discs, the notion of a high end media device without a UHD drive seems nuts to me.
PC is an open platform though that allows for much better longevity when it comes to games scaling with future hardware without needing the approval of publishers pushing an update.
Console games are at the mercy of whether future consoles will have backwards compatibility and then new settings to meet expectations of future hardware. So physical is something I still prefer for console because I view console games more stuck in time due to so much being dependent on what is allowed. Don't really have a long term view of consoles. More of a nice to have an option to sell.
Largely speaking compatibility is uncertain across any two console generations.
On these platforms physical media represents license transferability.