Huge corporations like Warner actually can and do gain percentage points on their bottom line by deleting "content" and writing it off as a loss. Having to pay

Huge corporations like Warner actually can and do gain percentage points on their bottom line by deleting "content" and writing it off as a loss. Having to pay several million less in taxes can actually make the company more profitable than it already was. The executives at these companies care about the spreadsheets. Not about the people making or watching the shows. Sometimes the spreadsheets come out better in the short term for deliberately chucking a show into the fire. It is the short term incentives that are the problem in that respect.