I guess I'm someone who would have played way more games if I had the money. 4 new games a year was about where I was and is how I justified the initial purchase.

Unless one of the games that you are playing is one that benefitted from paying it's bills with game pass instead of mtx, there probably isn't much that you are benefiting from or will benefit from a game pass service.

Selling licenses directly is a huge source of revenue for both game publishers and video content publishers and I don't see why they would ever say no to being sent money in exchange for an executable. Do some TV shows not release blu rays? I honestly don't know because I only really see the big name ones because I don't really look at physical media anymore. I assume there are probably some shows that didn't get a physical media release right?

Anyway, I feel like we would have already seen that in video content already. Hell, game pass itself sells individual licenses directly to users from within the app itself, and I don't know what would compel someone to ever switch that off.