Here is why won't ever adapt to Cloud Gaming (and I know this is mainly just me).

• With the exception of xCloud, it isn't buy once play everywhere. I've spent $2k+ on Steam and even if you only factor in games I've put more than 1 hour into, my average cost is like $12 per game. I'm not going to buy the same game more than once just to play it on a different platform.
• it’s free to use and it’s compatible with over 650 games: While this seems like a lot, that is a tiny fraction of games available on Steam and GOG. Plus when each game is counted once per platform you realize just how inflated that number is. In practice I've found very few games that are actually compatible.
• For me, the perk to cloud gaming is remote gaming. But where am I ever going to be that has proper internet to maintain this? Stadia was terrible at any normal hotel, no internet on planes, gaming while traveling is 100% dependent on something not within your control. If I'm at home and I want to play a game using the Steam Link on any computer, my phone or my Chromebook is far better of an experience.
• I guess I'm definitely not the demographic for it. I have a harder time swallowing $10/mo subscription fees for a bucket of games that I might want to play than $120 over the course of a year for two, brand new, AAA games that I want to play.

Again, these are all just how I feel. But the TLDR is Cloud Gaming's biggest failure point is the only point at which I see it has any relevance: when you are away from your primary gaming option.

The problem with GFN is lack of consistency and lack of a TV experience.

In Android TV you don't want to login into a service with a keyboard every time, or change graphic settings (you expect the provider to know the best settings for their machines).

Moreover, performance sometimes is a lottery, depends on the machine you get. Some like the so called 2060b are a stutter feast no matter how low you set the graphics. That's why now Tomb Raider 2013 runs worse than months ago making it unplayable. Rise of Tomb Raider needing more graphics power runs flawlessly. The Crew 2 also suffers performance issues due to the 2060c configuration. And you don't get a better machine if you pay Founders.

Other games like Life is Strange won't recognize you bought the DLCs for the episodes and will let you play the first (free) one.

So... catalogue is huge compared to other streaming services, but convenience and lack of cloud optimized titles hurts it. It had everything to be the best service, but there's so much to fix and improve, especially for a good Android TV experience.

I will probably next time i'm due to upgrade or rebuild my rig. But for now, no way.

Stadia is awful, the sound quality is less than old landline audio. But that being said, I build to have max quality at 1440p 144Htz, so if people just want semi decent 1080p, streaming is decent.

Games you purchase on Stadia can be played even if you don't have a paid subscription.

On Stadia your subscription games also reappear if you resubscribe. I like Geforce Now but I'm more certain a purchased game will be available on Stadia later than I am a game bought on Steam for Geforce Now. Stadia also loads games quicker and in a simpler more straightforward manner. Happy with both but I wouldn't see Geforce Now as the main option of the two.

Not as long as download caps are still a thing.

GeForce Now would be great, if nearly all games would work, like on Shadow PC. 650 games are nothing, if the games you like to play, are not supported.

they all use subscription models that revoke access to your games once you stop paying

Wrong. Stadia is free to use for anyone, you just need to buy the games. Yes GFN is good for games you perhaps already own, but Stadia is a much better solution for the games you have not purchased yet.

Edit: Sorry jumped the gun there. I see you do clarify further down, but it still rubbed me the wrong way when I read that.

GFN is useless without purchased games as well, so I don't see the need to hold that part against Stadia.

And if you don't pay for GFN, you are going to wait 20-30 minutes every time you want to play a game.

Stadia, Luna, and xCloud are all great, but I see them as the back-ups to GeForce Now. Their libraries are much smaller at the moment, and they all use subscription models that revoke access to your games once you stop paying.

I know that it goes on to clarify this, but Stadia's model is nothing like the other two and really shouldn't be lumped in there. You get free games with the subscription just like PSPlus or Xbox Live Gold. And yes, with both of those you lose access to the free games when you cancel your subscription.

Geforce Now is fine, but I've had a much worse experience than with Stadia. If you don't pay for the subscription there are long queues to start a game, making the subscription essentially mandatory to keep playing.

I don't feel the need to adapt to something just because it exists. The current tool for the job (local hardware) works wonderfully and has plenty of innovation going on within the space. Along with affordability.

Remote access to my own game library is definitely something I'd get behind but I wouldn't trade off local access to these games to get it. And that's not really what GeForce now is selling.

I wish Geforce Now had servers in our corner of the world - the closest location is 6,700 miles away. :(

I am so impressed with Stadia on Chrome on PC and tablet, but on Android TV/CCWGTV sideloaded its unusable, for me at least.

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The new Cyberpunk offer is superb as well for free hardware.

I'd really like GeForce now, or game streaming in general, if more games, like, virtually all your PC games were available.

As of now most of these services are very anti developer and only useful for AAA developers and big corporations.