To back up a video disk you need to break multiple layers of copy protection and tricks. Not something the average non-technical user can ever do. You also need local redundant storage.

I didn't need to do anything complicated last time I backed up a bluray, the software made it essentially "click this button then wait a while"

Courts have upheld that you have a right to break copyright protection to preserve your purchased physical media and upheld the right to make and distribute tools to pursue this. Until the law catches up and does the same for digital you are wrong to compare digital and physical media this way.