That's an interesting perspective to me, because I see it completely differently. I do sometimes get a bit of nostalgia for the old Blockbuster days, but then it snows outside and I remember how much better it is today.
To me, having to go to a physical location and deal with the fragileness of physical media is annoying - get in the car, drive somewhere, choose from with a limited selection or risk having the movie I want out of stock, worry about late fees, drive back or go out of my way the next day to drop the movie off. Then sometimes the disk is scratched or dirty, and it won't play or it has skips or it just stops half-way through the movie. If it turns out the movie isn't as good as I thought - I have to repeat the whole process to go get another movie, or I have to pick two or three movies each time which make it more expensive. If I've been drinking, can't drive anywhere then...
With digital - it's just easier. My butt is in my warm home on the comfortable couch the whole time sipping on a whiskey or beer, click click click, done. No skips, no dirty disks, no driving. If the movie sucks, no problem, there are literally hundreds more to choose from instantly.
That said, I have a very reliable internet connection. Nothing super fast, 300Mbit, but not slow either. My AppeTV is wired over gigabit to my router, which is rock solid. None of that is cheap, and I understand many places in the world don't have access to reliable fast internet, not everyone has a house wired with Cat6 ethernet cables, and not everyone can afford an expensive router. If I didn't have those things, I would probably prefer renting disks too.
