You'll never know when you'll need them until you need them.
TL;DR: Fujitsu is reintroducing optical drives in new notebooks amidst Japan's growing demand for Windows 11 PCs that support playing physical media, as people abandon their old Windows 10 hardware ...
Going to rip the DVD and possibly the BD collection to the Plex server. Of course, optical drives are all but a footnote in a modern PC. I see LG, Asus, Pioneer BD drives on Amazon, but for all I know ...