COMPLETELY agree. In fact, just 3 days ago I managed to cancel my NY Times subscription entirely, precisely for the reason you mention. I'd been paying them $2

COMPLETELY agree. In fact, just 3 days ago I managed to cancel my NY Times subscription entirely, precisely for the reason you mention. I'd been paying them $240 a year for their hackassed 'you can read it on a tablet and the web but not on a phone' plan. Then I got the new iPhone XXL, and suddenly was interested in reading news on my phone after all (since this new model finally has a screen big enough to read text on). But I couldn't, due to having the wrong subscription type, and then I had to do the multiple-annoying-step process of finding the old subscription, turning it off, then adding the new subscription that let me read it on a phone and the web but NOT on a tablet... at the end of which their app told me I had to log in. Which I did, but it then told me 'Fuck you, customer, that email is associated with a different subscription' (to paraphrase). So I just canceled everything and deleted the NY Times app. In this era, it's an amazing achievement to get a lot of people willing to pay money to read your news content. It's sad that the NY Times fucked that up so badly with their insane pricing and convoluted subscription choices.