I was thinking about this recently as well. People generally underestimate the engineering effort and infrastructure needed to achieve what Netflix has which is

I was thinking about this recently as well. People generally underestimate the engineering effort and infrastructure needed to achieve what Netflix has which is essentially that it offers a smooth, fast video player on all nearly every platform, including my toaster. You realize how (apparently) difficult this is especially when it comes to fast forward and rewind. This is a mostly seamless experience on Netflix (and YouTube as well), but extremely janky and frustrating on Prime Video as well as Disney+. Getting to the precise spot you want on Netflix (and YT) is easy both on mobile as well as when using a remote on TV, which is typically a pretty awful experience. I get super frustrated when trying to fast forward and rewind NBA League Pass on Prime, though I wonder how much of this has to do with them doing less caching and/or still image grabbing for less watched things? All I know is that I wish I could have this subscription on Netflix and have considered moving it over to YouTube TV.