Options are great, but generally speaking companies tend to sunset options that are less profitable, regardless if it provides a better experience.

Case in point, once movie and TV streaming got popular, selling that content in physical or even digital form died off but it didn't die completely. Plenty of people still like to own the media they pay for, plenty of people still like physical media collections that can never, ever be taken away when a server gets shut down. Having that option is great, too.

But it's a less profitable option. So, to spite what some want, certain content is just streaming only now, while the prices rise. And that's the new world we allowed ourselves to be shepherded into. While we were blinded by convenience, they discreetly shut the door behind us, and now there's no going back (without piracy).

So yes, game streaming itself is a great option to have for many. That's not the problem.

The trajectory is the problem.

It's also worth pointing out any direction that furthers our dependence on the ISPs not being awful is asking for trouble. For example, remember when Charter was allowed to acquire Time Warner Cable and become Spectrum? They promised regulators they would not impose bandwidth caps for 7 years, and as of today it's been 7 years and 30, days.

10 years from now, at an Applzonooglsoft Developers Conference: the new cloud... is YOU!

crowd gasps and then immediately is turned into fluffy little floating data center server racks

You: I FORETOLD THIS DAY!

Going from dumb terminals to beefy individual networked computers and back a few times was a thing for a while and eventually it has settled into a use case specific balance because it is a balance between costs of centralizing the computing, networking, and people managing both. Throw networking connection issues for many locations and it is clear that everything cloud doesn't work for everything.

Centralized gaming has already shown the same complexities and can never be fully put into the cloud even if that will work for a large portion of games and uses.

And they told in communism you will not have anything