This is the inevitable consequence of tuning the content of productions to a subscription based business model once you have achieved market saturation. The pur

This is the inevitable consequence of tuning the content of productions to a subscription based business model once you have achieved market saturation. The purpose of the videos on Netflix is not to entertain or inform you, but to do the bare minimum to stop you from switching to something else. This is beginning to take hold in parts of the games industry too, where it's far more important to keep the player "engaged" (in the absolute loosest possible term) than give them time to go off and do something else. I believe a lot of 80s and 90s nostalgia stems from the fact media creators were incentivized to give the consumer what they actually valued in a relatively short time, whereas once given the opportunity the producers will drag it out as long as possible eventually milking everyone dry. You may have less in the way of explicit commercial breaks today, but the whole thing has become one big commercial break for something which the service is constantly promising to deliver and never does.