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I miss actual 1-5 star ratings. I want to know if a movie is rated by a majority of people to be more than 4 stars. If its not I don't want to waste my time watching it. I don't care if the movie is rated to be a 95% match for my wife.

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The star rating was never the value of everyone's opinion, it's always been based on what Netflix thought you would rate the film[1]. So the % match hasn't really changed. Being able to give an honest opinion though, has. Now it's just a binary "yes" or "no", which is super annoying.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/netflix-ratings-really-mean-1...

I miss it too, but I expect that the vast majority of people only rated films they watched as 5 stars, 1 stars, or no rating (meh, or the same as 3 stars). Most things I watch still don’t get a rating, so it’s really a reduction of 5 levels to 3, not a binary.

At one point they had the star ratings where you could see two different star ratings. The primary one was of users like you and then in smaller print could see average of all users. Going back even further you could see see you friends' ratings of a title.

Probably got rid of it because most of their films are terrible

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