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Sail the high seas people, sail the high seas.
Better quality, less to zero costs and not dependent on streaming services.
Well, they have to have some customers or they'll go away. I'm still with them for now, but each rate increase has always brought up questions of cost to value. I'm not against what you're suggesting, but again... these services do have to make money to stay around. My problem is now there's like a dozen different streaming services with content spread across.
In the past I've downgraded my Netflix 'service' as they have raised the rates. Not sure there's much downgrading left before I'm either forced to live with the rate or leave.
Will cross that bridge when I get to it.
I'm okay with them going away. The existence of that one particular company is not a net benefit to society.
I think their implication is that you want them to stay around to keep producing and offering more content, but I'm also pretty okay with that happening. Series produced by streaming services just can't seem to write self-contained seasons without leaving unresolved plot lines as a hook to keep you subscribed, but they're also just ruthless in acing anything once the numbers dip a touch. It's gotten to the point where I see "Netflix original" or whatever as a massive red flag when picking something to watch, as I know there's a high chance I'll never get any resolution to the series.
Beyond that, given the proliferation of streaming services replicating the cable packages this services initially were pitched as letting us do away with them, I say let 'em burn to the ground.
The scenario you described has basically taught me to wait a season or two before I binge-watch anything on Netflix, to make sure a series never ends on a cliffhanger that won't be resolved.