This is genuinely a great comment. I'd never thought about this issue in this way before, and I don't think most other people have either. It seems to be common

This is genuinely a great comment. I'd never thought about this issue in this way before, and I don't think most other people have either. It seems to be commonly accepted that streaming services are a move in the direction of pay-for-what-you-what anti-fragmentation. As you've pointed out, it's just a different form of fragmentation. Streaming services aren't like channels that you can pick and choose from (they're much bigger and more expensive than individual channels), they're effectively "packages" that include a couple channels / shows you want, and a ton you don't. It's as if people back in the day were saying about cable packages "you can pick and choose the ones you want, it's totally up to you, there's no fragmentation!"