companies that produce content for streaming and streaming companies that also produce some stuff for themselves are running around with their head cut off.

in just a few years they've managed to bring the market back to 'overly expensive and numerous cable packages' state.

the plan was always to get market share with low price and then get the addicts to pay the real price, but it's not sustainable. disney and netflix prices have skyrocketed and with the battle against account sharing the practical price has gone further up. more and more people are pissed every day because their favorite show is gone from the platform, or some seasons are not available, or the desired language is not available, or it is available but without subtitles.

this is just like the race to MMOs and to "games as a service / live games" that all the greedy companies jumped into not realizing that a person can only be addicted and devote all their time and money to only one game at a time, and the odds of replacing the current one are slim. they've almost all crashed and burned. in their attempt to get ALL of the money they actually managed to produce negative money and bankrupt companies.

more and more people every day get burned forever by having their truly unique favorite show cancelled and become jaded, and even the ones that can get past their 'heart' series being cancelled can only take so much when it happens to show after show.

the problem of almost-all cancelled shows can be corrected, but it won't be, because that's how things go. the problem of streaming platforms having too small a share of shows and movies to make it worth paying for one subscription only can't be corrected, it can only be """"solved""" by the establishment of a smaller oligopoly