This may be a "feature" but it's a kludge. I can appreciate that for many consumers, having your card expire is an annoying anachronism with no benefit. They s

This may be a "feature" but it's a kludge. I can appreciate that for many consumers, having your card expire is an annoying anachronism with no benefit. They simply want it to keep working so that their Netflix account keeps working. The fact that this "feature" exists suggests that the credit card companies have realized and accepted this, and wish to offer a way to effectively circumvent card expiration. That is reasonable, but instead of refactoring the status quo to enable cards with longer (or simply indefinite) expiration periods, they implement this "feature". And now credit cards and payment processing becomes even more complicated. Bleh. I'm sure there is substantial regulatory and technical inertia that can explain why they're doing it this way, but still.. Bleh.