IMO it's been quite underwhelming. I'm partial to the 7th gen over 8th, except for Nintendo's offerings of which I consider about equal. Indie games were also around during the 7th gen, they just didn't get a lot of unnecessary physical prints for collecting purposes. And unless you are a die-hard physical collector like a lot of us dinosaurs here, having a print or not won't impact ones ability to discover games from the 8th gen.
I still miss the days of the 7th gen, the last of the classic Japanese studios, lots of third party games with a budget behind them, trying new things, ambition for new IPs, a handheld with physical media like the DS could be a thing with tons of software on it. 7th gen was the end of an era, and 8th gen was a rebirth. Now it's either a huge studio cranking out X amount of installments, or it's a indie game that may or may not get a physical print.