I have to be honest. I'm pretty shocked about your attitude. This is a pretty elitist-arrogant attitude towards collecting from a guy who has enough money to buy so pretty much every game he wants.
If you own and buy (pre-order) at retail EVERY game by THQ Nordic, Soedesco, 505 Games, Rising Star, Maximum Games and the games of all the others niche publishers (including probably also NIS) PLUS all the Limited Run games and every possible collectors and limited edition, that makes alone well over $600 a month just for niche games. Aditionally there are mainstream games, plus probably games for older systems...guy, that is a lot of money and probably $2000 just for games every month.
This is not an accusation because I honestly believe that you deserve this kind of money and you certainly can invest it in your hobby, to buy games for it makes much more sense to me than buying cars.
But please understand that you are in an exceptionally privileged position and that this is not the position of your average gamer and collector. If I'd make a survey here and would ask how many DP-members buy EVERY game at retail of the publisher I listed in the above post PLUS Limited Run games at retail, I bet that would not even be 5%. If this were 6% I'd be very surprised.
Now I understand your opinion about LR. No matter how LR sells their games, you get your games anyway. They could publish games with a printrun of 500 and sell the game for $250, you get your games anyway without problems.
The fact that you are not concerned of possible copycats of the terrible LR-salesmodel with rarity hype, ebay scalping and the instrumentalization of ebay scalping by Limited Run itself in order to push sales is troublesome but understandable. If there were even 6 companies like Limited Run, you'd get your games anyway. You couldn't care less about the negative consequences of a salesmodel for many because it doesn't affect you as a minority.
Now I understand that I never heard a word from you about the sentence by LR in their email 'get it now on our website before you pay the multiple price for it on ebay.' It doesn't concern you because it doesn't have to concern you. As long as you get games from LR, no matter how, everything is good and you can have a very good opinion about the owners as gamers, collectors, and developers like us.
That you see LR as beneficial for collectors because of ten games which probably wouldn't have been picked up by other publishers is again very understandable. The negative overshadowing consequences of their sales model doesn't affect you at all. To refer to capitalism, supply and demand, adaptation, survive or go under is very easy to say for someone who doesn't have to be concerned about price development for niche games.
That you regard physical copies as a 'luxury which nobody needs to own' fits the picture. The questionable salesmodel of LR is pretty out of reach if tailored toward the elitist collector. Possibly luxury prices for luxury products in the future?, $30 for you for niche games are very cheap and very affordable.
I have to be honest. I dislike your attitude. I think this is an elitist collectors attitude.
PS: How do you know that LR is "very generous" towards developers in sharing revenues. Do you know how much developers get from Limited Run? Do you know how much they get fom Maximum Games, 505 Games and Soedesco and all the other smaller publishers? Or is that again just a very nice assumption?