Now we've landed on an equilibrium where we all just rent all of our content forever.
It's convenient, but feels hollow.
The content can be more easily taken away because you never actually had it.
A question: can your ebooks be passed on to your heirs?
Even if they can, the account costs an ongoing fee to continue having access, so if you stop using it you can't access it.
Compare that to physical media, where as long as you have the physical storage space to hold it, you have continued access to it with zero marginal cost.
Superficially looks the same, but one is way more fragile than the other!