> I also do not understand why people complain about having the choice to not pay for things they do not want to watch. This description works if you skip stra

> I also do not understand why people complain about having the choice to not pay for things they do not want to watch. This description works if you skip straight from the age of cable packages to the current day. That's missing a lot though. From the point of view of someone who hasn't made a quantum leap forward, publisher specific streaming services drove adoption by taking things away from viewers. If I used to be able to watch something on Netflix, but now I can't because $company pulled all their content to their own streaming service, there's no world in which that's a win for me. 100 companies producing tons of filler content to try to make their own $10/mo service valuable isn't a good trade off for "you need a new paid app to watch the thing you used to watch in this app you already have."