I wish Netflix understood how tone-deaf their engineering blog can come off. They frequently tote how they're 'saving bandwidth' with this optimization or that

I wish Netflix understood how tone-deaf their engineering blog can come off. They frequently tote how they're 'saving bandwidth' with this optimization or that optimization. If you have a mid-range or better TV and care about quality, you'll notice pretty quickly that their bitrates are abysmal. I get it, they are responsible for a lot of bits flying through the matrix and they need to be smart about it. But I expect quality to remain the same or get better over time, not get worse. It's not engineering at that point, it's accounting.