Agree fully.
At first, I was super happy for streaming. **** cable right? Like 6 years ago I was on board with 'a la carte' media! Yay!
Then instead of paying just one evil Comcast, now, there are about 35 ****ing Comcasts...every ****ing channel and studio asking $10+/month for access to their empire...oh...and I STILL get to ****ing pay Comcast for the goddamn internet to stream the ****ing shows.
What the ****.
Another victory for: books!
Don't forget the throttling.
It's the issue with tech. Do you remember around the time "data" became more important than "minutes" on your cellphone?
It was around the time we all went from CDMA/GSM and networks like that to 3g, then 4g came and along with it....streaming services and youtube on your phone. Youtube now has it own streaming service too, literally every network is in the streaming game now. It's the illusion of "oh, haha I don't pay for cable" but really when you do the math for your internet + the subscription for your streaming service and your phone, you're just slightly better off and that changes when companies are able to re-write their data usage disclaimers.
I remember at one point, 4gig of data was a ton. 4gig now would barely last 2 weeks because so many things use data now and even if you streamed wireless at home on wifi, you have a cap, there's no "unlimited" unless you have some grandfathered deal, it's unlimited to point.
I remember I was dicking around on my xbox one and I was able to find thing that showed me data usage, I would watch netflix for maybe an hour or two a day to just zone out and the data usage was insane. I have a "grandfathered" deal which isn't even old, but I got this dude to bend over backwards for me for my internet package and made sure if they ever changed the language to make it not unlimited, I am to have my service cancelled and I wash my hands clean of them. Hasn't happened yet.