It means people paid more up front in the past and yet look back at that pricing as fair. It means cognitive dissonance.
It's already explained over multiple times. It's getting tired to explain it again.
I will give you a few examples why it doesn't matter.
1) u can't resell your games which makes the value of those games already complete dog shit. If i buy a mario game from nintendo i can resell it the next month for 10 bucks less. which means i only spend 10 bucks for a game. With PC i can't sell my digital license which means games are far less word then when u got a physical copy. Because of this there is also no second handed market which again means those 4 people that want to play that game will need to buy all of them that game. With a physical game that's not the case.
2) digital is far more cheaper to deliver to your consumer then a physical license. All the costs are gone for you and investment risks and a ton of work that involves with it. It also eliminates any need to get any cut from any platform because u can just launch the game with a installer that people can download from your own site. Going to a 30% cut person, is just you wanting to get more attention and basically u should see it as marketing cost anyway which u would have to do anyway with physical copy's. Only now u profit out of it.
3) The reason why prices went down on PC, is because in general PC gamers pirated the living shit out of the games read the many gaben interviews about this subject to get a better understanding why that was and why his shop is a juggernaut success in a world where piracy was the norm. The reason why was because prices and the hoops to jump through to get your product in a working order was simple not acceptable so company's died out and got replaced by company's that offered stuff easy + so far that it was even free entirely. PC gamers pay a shit ton of money in microtransactions in league of legends for example or mmo's or whatever. They don't like to buy high prices upfront and will skip it.
4) if you have a game that u price for 80 bucks, u could have had more people that buy your game at 40 bucks. Ever wonder why for example games sell far better when they are discounted on PC? how horizon zero dawn is always in the top 10 of sales on a discount from 50 to 30, but never ever sits in the list when the price is 50?
Its not like digital licenses costs you extra cost to deliver to the client, because the only thing u need to give them is a key and that's about it.
Anybody simping for those company's because they need more money are fucking idiots that never though this shit through even remotely.
Go ask sony why there games cost 80 euro's digitally and 80 physically? ask them why the costs are the same? where they not talking 10 years ago about price reductions because its cheaper so everybody wins? how did that work out?
Also the cheaper cut on epic for example with a lower cut like 12% or something for developers so games could become more profitable and cheaper for consumers? how did that work out for the gamers?
Those company's are full of shit, and people buying in this dumb ass act of them are honestly complete idiots.