I'm excited because of Starfield. It was still an enjoyable game to me.

If they can keep the combat and stories, but condense the world and add that sense of exploration from their older games, I would be happy.

Yup, they were specifically referring to the PC edition, which makes a lot more sense.

Maybe I misunderstood your point, but I think the original comment was saying they like buying physical, transferable copies of games (ie. disks) because of the points they mentioned. The Starfield physical copy is pointless because you're not getting a transferable copy, you'll just get a single use code (which is the same as buying digital). The only reason people would want the Starfield physical copy is to have an item on their shelf.