There absolutely is a cliff. Every general rule of thumb has a limit. However, what you're describing is not the financial limit. We once paid quite a bit mo

There absolutely is a cliff. Every general rule of thumb has a limit. However, what you're describing is not the financial limit. We once paid quite a bit more for cable tv than streaming services. Paying for the big streaming services combined comes to about the same or less than previous cable subscriptions. In this case it's not about cost but convenience. These companies need to provide an api that allows for services like plex (or similar) to pipe all of the streaming services into one platform, with one auto buy if you watch and stop paying if you haven't watched anything from that network within x months.