I don't think that you are exactly on point, but you're pretty close.

Physical media really doesn't matter, what really matters is DRM free. You don't need original physical media if you can make as many copies as you want, and then it doesn't matter if you lose the original disc, because you have 10 others.

For a lot of these games, they will give you a CD but who cares -- you can't start a single player game without contacting an external server anyway!