I see people complain about needing subtitles all the time. I don't have the best hearing but I can regularly listen to video media (TV, Movies, Internet Conten

I see people complain about needing subtitles all the time. I don't have the best hearing but I can regularly listen to video media (TV, Movies, Internet Content(think YouTube / Twitch), Streaming) at very low volumes and hear everything fine. I can only attest to anecdotal evidence but it sure seems to me that folks are just getting older and can't hear and think the problem is with the content but not themselves. I recognize TVs aren't 1:1 on volume scales. When I am at my house, I can listen to the television at 5 - 15. If I have anyone else over it has to go to at least 40. When I go to someone else's house (both older and younger than myself) but am watching the television by myself I'll turn it down to 10 or so, depending on how far away I am. Everyone else gets concerned like I can't hear it. When I am watching the same content on the same screen with the same speakers, they regularly need it back toward 40 at a minimum. I have to imagine that while audio mixing may not be as clear as it was before it does not rise to the need to increase the volume as much as folks tend to nor the need to use subtitles. Personally, and maybe this is from watching anime a lot, as soon as there are subtitles, I read the subtitles and the actual content on the video is lost because now there are words on the screen that my brain needs to read rather than consume the actual content. It turns content into poorly written novels.