I find it sort of funny that a lot of tech journalism still follows the assumption that consumers somehow want subscriptions - or at least wanted them at some p

I find it sort of funny that a lot of tech journalism still follows the assumption that consumers somehow want subscriptions - or at least wanted them at some point in the past, even if they grow weary of them now. If that had ever been the case, companies wouldn't have had to use every carrot and stick at their disposal, from promotions to dark patterns to paywalls to eventually just discontinuing onetime purchases completely - just to drag users into subscriptions. I'm pretty sure subscriptions have always been a trend that was driven exclusively from the business side - so I don't think consumers signalling "exhaustion" here is any significant development. They didn't have a lot of say in the matter in the past and they don't have a lot of say in the current time either.