Agreed, it has been like this for a long time for movies though. That's obvious when you find some types of movies really boring if you reduce the sound / have

Agreed, it has been like this for a long time for movies though. That's obvious when you find some types of movies really boring if you reduce the sound / have a way to equalize it so that there can't be any spike of louder background music. For TV shows I don't think I'm as bothered as you, since like movies, the goal is to be entertaining. But I agree that in recent documentaries it's very obnoxious, in the end those looks more like entertainment posing as documentary. It's hard to find good quality documentaries on platforms like Netflix/Hulu/etc