..agreed, but they can also read USB sticks.. and most other current & superceded data cards via USB card readers.

10 years ago I was burning significant quantities of CDs and DVDs every day.
I don't think I've needed to burn more than 2 in the last 18 months...???

I have 2 CD duplication burners[used to mass produce band demo CDs]
that have been mothballed and gathering dust since several years ago...

The DVD burners in my laptops have never been used at all,
and I see more sense in eventually removing them and using the space for solid state hard drives.