Have you used Kodi? Roughly equivalent: why do people shop at Whole Foods when they can get the same food cheaper at a farmer’s market? The produce is washed,

Have you used Kodi? Roughly equivalent: why do people shop at Whole Foods when they can get the same food cheaper at a farmer’s market? The produce is washed, curated for imperfections, and marked up. These streaming platforms are not perfect as no product since Unix has been, but to think altruistic programmers working for free can do an equivalent job is hubris. These interfaces take years of iteration and optimization in subtle ways like Netflix A/B testing thousands of generated cover photos.