You will own nothing and you will be happy

The current Slim PS5 also doesn’t have a disc drive, you can just buy it in a bundle and attach the optional one.

Honestly for manufacturing this makes way more sense, to ship one SKU and then make them all upgradable to disc. It’s also kind of nice that if you buy a digital one and want disc in the future you can just buy the drive.

This makes me realize, is there a limit on read speeds of disk vs. NVMe?

I’m not sure the disc drive can be saved at this point. There’s big games that didn’t even come out on disc, like BG3.