I always preferred physical in the past, even for PC, as they had those giant boxes and cool box art. I had a special book shelf where I loved displaying my fav games alongside my fav books, and a few figures, like they were competing with each other for my top spots. There were a lot of different shapes, made it fun to decorate.
Once a lot of PC games started using normal DVD cases with Games for Windows Live, coupled with rampant CD key issues, I wasn't hard to get me all aboard the Steam/GOG trains. Even with my physical PC games, I often found myself using gamecopy world to crack my games, and wishing I didn't needs the discs at all. PC just made better sense digital, especially with them being forever titles, regardles of your system, It's too convenient. It also helped with the way Steam displays our libraries/most played games, and all the relevant stuff in the community hub. It's such a great service.
For consoles, I would still prefer having them as physical if they weren't just basically codes in a box, especially Switch 2 games. I love my Switch, 3DS, DS and PSP cases with a bunch of cartridges ready to roll regardless of internet. Are all Switch 2 games boxes with codes now? I haven't bought a current gen console, so I don't know what PS5 and Xbox are like, but most of my PS4 games required long download times on physical copies, iirc.
