You do realise you can buy the games on gamepass separately? So not sure what ownership has to do with it. You can buy Gears 5 in the shops if you want.
Wishing a console to fail is sad. Improved Xbox pushes Sony. Sonys first party in the PS1 and PS2 days weren’t all that. They relied massively on third party. Just look at the PS1 Classic compared to NES classic. Games like GTA used to come on PS first. But with the 360 that changed all the major third party supported it, which meant Sony had to improve their first party output. Which they did for the latter years of PS3 and PS4. That’s just a small example of how MS pushed Sony.
You conveniently forgot to mention how MS also changed online gaming on consoles. It’s why the 360 will go down as one of the greatest consoles. Sony pretty much copied MS in that department. Nobody forced Sony or Nintendo to charge for online.
360 will never go down as one of the greatest console ever made for the simple fact it was manufactured with a console breaking architecture.
I loved getting the hair dryer out or waiting a few weeks as they shipped me back my console, online was fantastic on the 360 doesn't mean we had to be charged for it they saw a market pushed it and people ate it up, there is plenty of examples of people trying to enforce stuff in the PC market where enough people have stood against it that it was never implemented.
As for not owning the product i just see this less likely to push for greater games/new IP's as without having to go in the open market and sell your product the demand for quality is not as vast.
I don't think Sony would of pushed so many unique and top quality story driven games if they were just handed out on a subscription basis, this is just my feeling.
I'm totally aware people can buy it physically but the average console gamer (COD/Fifa every year) will eat up the subscription fee without thinking longer term, i just think the model as a whole is bad for the industry.
Micro transactions are bad enough this method reeks of adding more and more