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"The cases where I do buy physical media is for the booklets or libretto"

You must be aware that many websites now offer booklets on download for free (Hyperion, Naxos, Toccata Classics,... and you can download many others from Idagio, without even buying a subscription.

No need to "engage with younger people online" to be perfectly aware that they "pretty much never buy music any more".  As a matter of fact, it's not only "the younger people", I've myself not bought a CD for the last 5 or 6 years (but again I'm still young at heart !  ).

"([platforms] which aren't free in the truest sense, either because of ads or of course because of being locked behind subscriptions)"
We've had this discussion before.  What counts is that in the end, for the listener, some platforms are free (YT, even though it attempts, rather agressively these days, to either force a monthly subscription on the viewers or subject them to unbearable ads every 5 minutes or so.  Fortunately, there are very efficient ad blockers out there, and ways to get around it, at least for the the geeks among us), and some are not (Qobuz, Idagio, Deezer, Spotify....).
But I'm glad "they (SUPPOSEDLY) have the data that shows they make more money from offering it on these platforms. 
I guess it all comes down, ultimately, to the Schwabian New World Order philosophy: "you'll own nothing and you'll be happy!"

It's really hard to tell "what this will mean for the current and future catalogue in terms of both content and formats", but what this tells me at this point is that I can accesse the whole catalog of Hyperion (what they have put on streaming so far) for free on Youtube and Youtube Music... Idem for the CPO, Chandos, Toccata Classics catalogues and a few others (Warner, etc...).
Who says they're interested in SELLING recordings when they're giving them all for free ? Looks like they're more interested in drowning Deezer, Qobuz, Spotify and all the other paying platforms.

https://youtu.be/OPcIdHAAic8
Here a track from that album.

Those are the places where people pay directly for music via subscriptions. But YT is without question the place where most people consume music, with over a billion music streams per day.

And free.

Yeo, they have been coerced to decide and convinced that it was necessary.
Personnally, I'm not going to complain, but I don't understand the "immense benefits" of having their catalogue available free for nothing or close.

3 out of 84.  It's a start.
As I wrote Hyperion, I hope they will keep a good balance of new/recent recordings and older parts of the catalog when they'll put out the catalogue for streaming (as is with the 200 references they've already provided).

The Orfeo album is now on Youtube, just like so many albums from the major recording companies.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nHQsR10gad4QIR091hMZwiKf5avThoA6w

And another video that will give a good idea of the Preludes of that totally unknown composer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2U-S6Z3j7w

Thanks so much to Ebubu for the "Massenet" downloads.

Most welcome !

It doesn't look like the complete Lancelot will ever be published.  There doesn't seem to have been a studio recording alongside the stage production... Maybe we'll get further excerpts on YT, like the 3 that have been uploaded, but chances still look slim...

I would happily pre-order a set if it helps finance the recording costs. Some gaming companies do this. At GMT games, for example, they have a program called "P500". A new game is proposed and if a certain number of gamers subscribe to its production (500 in this case) they go ahead with the project.

It's nothing recent really. Opera Rara has functionned on this economic scheme from the start, with a subscription model to finance upcoming projects.... Now, of course, they have diversified their funding and have acquired a larger visibility, but...

I am wondering if anyone was able to record the Ariane broadcast on BR Klassik on Sunday January 29 ?

Yes.I'll upload it.
We also have the Herodiade, By Daniele Rustioni broadcast from the Théatre des Champs-Elysées in Paris.

Not so "impressive looking" when you realize that none of this is recent, and this is just a collection of EMI and Erato recordings issued over the last 40 years.  + a few historical recordings and 4 excerpts of Fragonard.  We'll have to turn to Timpani for substantial orchestral works and the COMPLETE Cydalise, as well as the complete Chamber Music.
We are still missing some of his major output (La Croisade des Enfants, St-François d'Assise -- though I uploaded the only fine radio recording by Fournet on YT, with some unfortunate cuts, and almost all his operas except the shortest one.)

Oh, I was not aware of that first release ! I'd been waiting for that for a long time.
Yes, Diane Andersen is not the most memorable pianist on the planet, and the recording dates a bit, but it's the only complete piano works that we can enjoy so far, apart from the rare 1-CD albums (MarcoPolo, Timpani...)