I don’t mind this, it was the forced bundles of traditional cable I hated. I’m perfectly okay with discounted bundles so long as I can still pick & choose small

I don’t mind this, it was the forced bundles of traditional cable I hated. I’m perfectly okay with discounted bundles so long as I can still pick & choose smaller pieces as well. I add & drop them all if the time. I had HBO Max for 3 non-contiguous months this year. Netflix for about 8, and Disney+ all of the time. Even digital streaming cable is significantly more convenient: I just picked up Sling for $25 a month, that I’ll only keep for a month, so that I can stream MLB playoffs on my phone, home computer, work computer, large screen TV, etc. with included 50hrs DVR. That’s a PITA and often not possible with for some channels with the traditional cable I cancelled. Overall I spend about 1/2 of what I was on regular cable and have no reduction in available content. It’s also easy to start and stop these, much much easier than it ever was to add and remove cable tv options (when I cancelled cable tv it took me almost 2 hours and 4 different “retention specialists” in increasing levels of authority forcing me to listen to their reasons for staying and potential discounts) It’s still a dynamic marketplace, and consolidation could bring back negative things for consumers. But for now the presence of individual offerings along with their discounted bundles seems like a win for consumer choice.