So many things questionable with your statement...
Stellar Blade? entertaining game, but I find it hard to believe that the only game you ahve for the 5 is that one
What are you doing to your controllers? 6 month lifespan?
You don't "have" to pay $80 (but if you do there are the free games each month and considering you only have Stellar Blade it would be well worth it for you)
And unless you have a PC, the fact is, Sony's move here is not going to make this your "last console generation".
It's easy to complain about no disc drive (which I myself admittedly thought was dumb), but now it appears to be a brilliant move by Sony. Those that want the drive can buy it and add to their Pro (Or Scalpers will buy them, but from a company standpoint it is still a sale).
I don't like the precident going forward to not have a disc drive, but my Steam Deck doesn't have one and I have somehow managed to survive. The Steam Deck also has addons to connect to your TV, but I do not recall a huge uproar that a dock wasn't included when purchasing one.
So to answer your questionables,
I said the only PS5 Exclusive I've bought has been Stellar Balde. Do I have a couple of other PS5 games that I could have gotten different systems sure, but as I said I didn't get the PS5 for it being the PS5. It was a replacment because I got sick of the slowly failing wireless card in my PS4 that was driving me insane and at the time I figured why not just throw a 100 more bucks get a PS5 rather than replacement it with a new PS4. The majority of what I play on it has been PS4 games.
Next I take very good care of my stuff. Every controllers I have ever gotten that came with the system back to the original NES is still in pefect working order. Even my Switch Joy-Cons which everyone knows are problematic still work perfectly after 4 years. The dual sense that came with my PS5 started getting stick drift after 3 months, by six months it got so bad I had to buy a replacement. I haven't even had a PS5 for a year now.
Next well while I did stock up on a couple of years before the $80 up charge, if I want to continue to play Monster Hunter online on my PS5 with my family & friends, yeah I "HAVE" to pay to Sony arbitrary paywall of just because, that Capcom or the Monster Hunter Teams will never see a cent of. And don't try to pass of the free rental games like it's a plus for the price. Everyone knows 90% of them are dog crap, they usually are a combination of games that have flops, a online only game that virtually dead well past it's prime or never was, or last years previous microtransaction riddle sports title of which the newer is already out or will be out in month's time. Are there occasionally a diamond in the mound of crap they keep servin us, sure. But in all the years I've had PS+ datiting back to the PS3, while at the beginning they offered some good titles but since the PS4 era you know how many PS+ games they given us I've played that I didn't already owned? One, that being Stranded Deep. PS+ is a joke & everyone knows it, stop trying to defend it.
Next I have a PC & a decent one so yeah this being my last console genertation is very viable but even if I didn't with the state of the industry as it it now I be perfectly fine just replaying my collection. Hell maybe I could take the next 10 years and get through my backlog, as we're CAGs we all have one and none of them are small. The thing is I've been a console player all my life and for me to even consider walking away from them is mind blogging to me, but that's how bad things have gotten. And to be fair it's not just Sony with the PS5, Microsoft is royally screwing the pooch on the Xbox side of things except with them I don't think they actually care if the brand lives or dies at this point. They're Microsoft, they're pissing off their bread & butter being Windows users to the point where boomers are learning to use Linux, hell I'm learning to use Linux at this point. As for Nintendo well we all know Nintendo going to Nintendo.
As for the disc drive well let me counter point this way. You know that pro controller which was touted as their $200 solution to their controller problem because you know you can just easy swap out a stick instead of replace the whole thing with a new stick that you could buy separtly for like $20. How many of those replacement stick have you seen in the wild? I've never seen one in the wild and when they show up online even from Sony directly themselves , it's usually only a handful and they're gone in a instant. Granted after a year now they've up the production of them a little so you can find them now and again, but you think the disc drive is going to be any different? We know what happens when Sony wants you to purchase the product, you still see the PSVR sets everywhere despite they've even admitted to the sales of it being "underwhelming". The disc drive is the same thing as the swapable sticks. They don't want to sell you a fixable parts for a controller because they want to you just buy a whole new controller. Just like they don't want to sell you a disc drive for the system as they want you to buy all your games on their digital marketplace because it makes them more money. Both offerings are just way placate those who are vocal about it by saying see you have a choice as they continute to slow boil us to the point where we're cooked.
To your last point. The selling point of the Steam Deck was it was a portable solution to PC gaming, key word being portable. It not having a dock to connect to my TV isn't a issue because it was never expected in the first place, especially when I already have a line running from my PC to my TV. It's like expecting a Nintendo DS or a PSP to do the same out of the box. Would have it been nice, sure but you were getting them for the portablity and maybe when you lose power for days on end so you don't have to do something like read a book. But releasing a premium version of your systems at a very premium price and saying to your customer "Hey if you want upgrade and continue play 50% to 90% percent of your games on the system? Give us another $80 and you can...that is when we feel like making the drive available to buy in the first place." It's the same slap in the face and then expect us to hand over our money to them regardless that the entire industry has been high on for years on end now.
Also don't pretend like the digital landscape in the PC landscape is anything like it is on consoles. PC you have multiple storefronts to buy your games from at vastly different prices. Not mention platforms, don't like drm go with GOG, Steam annoys the $h!t out of you well there's Epic, I would question your sanity as to why one would but the point is there's the option for it. Sony you want games for your PS5 you buy from our marketplace at our set prices or to go kick rocks. It's bad for the consumer & bad for the publishers. Might I remind you it used to be you could go into a brick & mortar and buy a card for a digital download for a PSN game abate at full price mind you, like you can still do for both Nintendo & Xbox, even some Steam games. But even that was too much consumer freedom for Sony and they converted everything to just digital currency, even the PS+. It's that type of mentally that kept Halo 3 still at 29.99 on the 360 storefront minus the occasional sale til the day they closed it down while you could probably get a disc copy for free or a dollar for the last decade plus.
Lastly I just like to say I WANT Sony to succeed, I WANT consoles to succeed and thrive as I can see the landscape being much more dark & dire without them all around. But that isn't going to happen as long as they continue in their second mid life crisis hubris mode and make stupid decisions, and if we don't call them out for it. I say this as I am just old enough to barely remember the first time we had a black Thursday in gaming & I see the same mistakes repeating itself. The way things are going Playstation as a system will meet a demise & they only option they will have is to go the Xbox route which I don't think they can afford to to do & gaming will then be relugated to PC & mobile. I don't want to see that come to past & I think neither do you. Minus Nintendo cause as they say the only things in life you can count on are death, taxes & Nintendo always going to Nintendo.
So there, I hope I was able to answer my questionable statement to your satifaction. If not well good luck to you good sir/madame/whatever you perfer, I wish you the best as obviously..
P.S. Apologies to everyone for the rant. I'm going through some $h!t and tend to do it when I'm stressed.
I'm all in. Disc drive comes tomorrow.
I have that, one of the X's (that ive died on the last jump more than id like to talk about) and the grandmaster challenge left.
ing stupid services.