I would say the future is cloud gaming.
Sadly, the future might be phone gaming. The mobile gaming market is as big as the console and PC markets combined.
Its ok for some thing but the lag is simply too much for popular genres of games.
What is that, like stadia?
Sadly, I agree with you. I don't like it, but it seems pretty clear.
The cloud gaming echo chamber has conveniently arrived to save the day by mimicking the solution to fix the problem the same industry created. Problem, Reaction, Solution.