I'm a tad less skeptical, businesses are there to make money and when their strategy to make money doesn't work they can either adapt or stop being an entity (ie -- stop selling the thing, or fold as a business). It's not optimistic to think low sales could impact future releases being pared-down. It's just basic economics applied to our discussion. There's likely a 50/50 chance for either outcome based on the current state of the market(?).
Whether or not there's enough willingness, consumer demand, and margin to continue producing physical media is probably an underlying factor but the idea that "physical surround music is going away" has been espoused for many years to the point it's become a trope on music discussion boards. I'm of the thinking they may be eyeing streaming as an end state, however that's not going to be tomorrow and when it does happen I'll be ready with my library of discs to weather that storm. Controlling our access to music and attaching a subscription to it is going to be a cash cow when it's finally an acceptable norm to all music listeners.
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