I play games, not only next gen exclusives. When the Xbone launched, my games were Peggle 2, Ryse, and Dead Rising 3. That's basically all I played until Titanfall came out. The third party games in the 2013 launch window were, imho, doodoo. And there was no option to play a backlog of 360 titles in enhanced form or anything or OG Xbox titles at all. Thank god I kept my 360 and still had my PS3.
This time around I'll be able to play:
Ass Creed Valhalla
Falconeer
Watch Dogs
Cyberpunk
Tetris Connected
And others day one (or day 7 or whatever for Cyberpunk) PLUS I can play all of these from my backlog, enhanced for next gen, at no upgrade cost:
Gears 5
Horizon 4
Gears Tactics
Maneater
Witcher 3
Dead by Daylight
Borderlands 3
Idk when the Witcher upgrade is coming but the rest are day one. Some of these titles like DbD and Tactics, I have played extensively. I already beat Tactics on PC, but it's a great game, and I'll do the endgame stuff on X|S. DbD is my most played game ever, but on PS4/Xbone the game struggles to maintain even 30fps. On X|S it gets enhanced graphics and 60fps. I'll pay $500 for that alone. Other titles like Borderlands and Gears 5 and Horizon and Maneater, I've barely played on my Xbone and are in my backlog... they're essentially brand new next gen games for me, even as a hardcore Xbox user.
And then into 2021 there are good things coming, first up being stuff like Medium, Scorn, and Ascent. Seems like a great launch window to me? I can certainly understand if he is taking a purely next gen exclusive look at things, it's disappointing to him, but that's a pretty crappy way to look at things. And if you're looking at it like that, how is the PS5 launch any better? A PS3 remake, a couple cross gen titles, and a shitty looking Rocket League x Fortnite title for $70? Amazing. But, like the X|S, it has tremendous third party launch support. And the SSD enhancements.... again, worth $500 alone. Or $300 in the case of XSS I guess.