Blockbuster failed for many reasons of their own doing, but I think that it is overlooked that they also failed because they couldn't outlast several years of N

Blockbuster failed for many reasons of their own doing, but I think that it is overlooked that they also failed because they couldn't outlast several years of Netflix dumping VC cash into a fire for good content. Now, in the classic SV "disruption" playbook, Netflix has stopped paying for quality content, excluding their own mostly mediocre content, and I am left wish that the blockbuster near my house was still open so that I could go out and rent a decent movie. So much of the Netflix catalog is absolute bargain basement garbage these days and it doesn't look like that is about to change anytime soon. Maybe one day we'll be able to access quality content from the big players, but I think there's an equal chance that we'll look back at a time when you could go and get access to a ton of classic movies from any studio and almost any time period without having to buy it upfront in a single consolidated location and feel like we've really lost something with our current state of affairs.