It's usually the other way around:
Physical copies are often cheaper.
Can sell, trade-in, or borrow a physical copy of a game. Basically it's easily transferrable.
Generally can play physical copies offline.
Personally prefer physical over...
Plex works with Intel ARC gpu's, but it doesn't support AV1 encoding currently. I think there is the issue of the Linux kernel driver for the Intel ARC gpu's, it is included in the 6.0 & newer kernels, so if you're running on Linux you need at...