: For you it will be an unwelcome insidious encroachment into your world of
: console gaming. You may be giving up a lot moving to PC but I don't have a
: crystal ball for that. I'd only move to PC gaming when the PC became as
: standardized as consoles. It may well happen.

: For me digital distribution on consoles will be like a breath of fresh air.

I can kind of see how you'd feel that way. I have a harder time seeing how you trust that console makers, and MS in particular, will never lock you out of "your" content (quotation marks because you won't really own it) for whatever reason they want.
Also, as for PC gaming becoming standardized, how is it not more standardized than consoles? Every game nowadays wants x86 or x86-64 and the vast majority of everything wants Windows, specifically one of the last two or three versions. The hardware can vary way more than any console, but in almost all cases, if it works, and it's powerful enough, it doesn't matter, assuming it's even a piece of hardware games need.