I'm in exactly the same boat. I finally switched from HBO on Amazon Prime on the day South Park left Hulu and HBO Max became a Hulu channel that you can't watch

I'm in exactly the same boat. I finally switched from HBO on Amazon Prime on the day South Park left Hulu and HBO Max became a Hulu channel that you can't watch with the Hulu app. (If that isn't confusing enough by itself.) The HBO Max app is terrible, clearly first generation. Many standard things we've come to rely on in the Amazon Prime (or even Netflix) apps don't work in HBO Max. Navigation is awful and the placement of buttons and tabs leads you to stupid pages like "About" when you are trying to navigate seasons or episdoes. The worst thing is that HBO Max app can't stream in the background on mobile. If you do anything else on your phone, the entire app stops and reopening it returns to the home screen! Amazon Prime Video and Netflix can both stream in the background in a thumbnail window. Even Hulu knows that you were watching a show and returns to the same spot in that show. After paying for HBO for more than 20 years, I also feel jilted by this "one price, two classes of service" model. Not cool, HBO.