It has no real advantages to buying a console because you still have to buy the games individually as they explained. It is no different than financing a gaming console except you could eventually pay it off unlike Stadia.

n=1 but I if were considering the two options, I would simply not want one that has me owning more electronic waste (console). I am not sensitive to the price either way, but I am sensitive to owning more electronics.

There’d be almost the same amount of electronics just sitting in Google’s servers. People don’t game 24/7 but if Google want to provision for peak loads like Christmas they can’t really get away with having less?

imo Stadia needs to switch to a Netflix style subscription-model to be financially viable (from a consumer standpoint)

I don't think it is out of the realm of possibility and I see them taking the same path as Netflix currently. They are launching with big games that people know, but they need to get people hooked with new exclusive games, and a bunch of cheap stuff so they can have the "Play 10k games for $X/month" marketing tagline.