When the games stopped shipping completely on their physical media is when they lost me. So, I guess PS3. To me, a console should be a completely self-contained experience. You want a game? You buy it. It comes on a disc, or cartridge, or HuCard. Doesn't need to download updates. Doesn't require the internet. Just pop it in, and boot directly to a game. Immune to digital stores closing, or servers shutting down.

If I have to download 50gb when I bought a game on discord, what are the discs even for? And I would still have to worry about disk space? Man, I'd rather just have a PC.

If you don't have enough technical skill level and experience to install a game via steam, gog, or (bleh) epic games, you don't have enough technical expertise to do the same on any console, including ones that require you to just put a cartridge in. Pressing "install" button and waiting for a while to then press "play" button might be less complicated than figuring out which side disk goes. And that's exactly what is required to play a computer game.
It is not like-for-like experience, because a general purpose computer allows you to do a bit more than playing a game, but in terms of actually doing it, let's not pretend it's some kind of rocket surgery.

Consoles are literally just computers. Install game -> play game. There's no magic "technical skill" required to do the same thing on a less locked down computer instead.

I think the steamdeck is the closest to a console-like experience, but yeah consoles have been PCs for a long time they just make it very simple to install/load games because it is a closed platform where they control every aspect of distribution

I understand the frustration with Xbox slowly dying, but this is all microslop's fault.