It's not a trade off, it's everyone else licensing them the content basically making Netflix have no choice but to produce its own content, everything else is t

It's not a trade off, it's everyone else licensing them the content basically making Netflix have no choice but to produce its own content, everything else is too expensive now. Everyone wants tons of money from Netflix for their content, and Netflix is choosing to not pay the increased rate. I'm sure if that changed Netflix would continue to produce new content and use others as well.