The article lists that hand curated selections have been replaced by algorithmic recommendations, pointers to DVD sales on Amazon are gone, columns are gone. No

The article lists that hand curated selections have been replaced by algorithmic recommendations, pointers to DVD sales on Amazon are gone, columns are gone. None of these things sound like a plus to me. Especially given how their algorithms seem to optimize for something (me spending time searching? watching particular movies that clearly aren't a match but Netflix has done incentive for me to watch? No clue) that's not me easily finding the best matching movie. Their interface at least on PS4 also makes it annoying to just read a description of a movie without anything starting to play. Their ratings seem all inflated and useless. I have to go to IMDb or rotten tomatoes to get useful ratings. The best interface for Netflix I've ever had was a Ruby script that used their API to give me a list of movies ranked by their prediction of how much I'd like them. The startling thing was that when that still worked their own interface showed me movies they predicted I'd dislike and didn't show me movies that they thought I'd love. Since the API is gone I can't confirm this anymore but it certainly feels like it. Edit: way back they even used to have a page that was in essence a table of movies that was sortable by rating. That was so useful. Unimaginable today! Edit 2: I'd love it if someone knew and could explain what the Netflix UI is actually optimizing for. I can't believe that it's that they cannot do better. Are they trying to hide lack of content? Are there different money implications of I watch movie A instead of movie B?