Yeah, I posted this in another sub earlier today and was thinking about your exact post. They are tried of trying to control edge computing so they will either rent it to you or eliminate it entirely.
Rent
Yup. That's already in the work with that nvidia experience and virtual all digital games. You own nothing except a rental license. Say one disapproved thing, laugh at the wrong joke and there goes your $80 game.
I have refused to use the "streaming games" and always will. Fuck them. If I cannot run it locally on my own hardware that I OWN I will not be running it.
The funny thing is back in the day there was something for the Sega Genesis that allowed streaming of games over Cable, I loved it. That was actually great, wasn't costly at all. I think it was free if you owned the device, the games were just 'yours'.