There's no point in paying for essentially any streaming service these days. Piracy legitimately provides a better user experience for free if you know how to do it right
If that takes more than a few seconds, I open up TV app on my phone, search it, and decide if it is worth buying.
If it is any more difficult than that, I spend my time doing something else. The situation is much better than the old days of relying on Comcast.
How often can you just buy the content? There are many movies that I would love to buy and own but there is no option. It is either lend them for streaming or buy a super expensive blue ray which I don't get to own because of DRM. I wish there was a gog.com kind of solution.
The only way I can truly own a movie is to pirate it.
I get wanting to help content creators but I think it is fine to help just some of them (especially the smaller ones). There is no reason to feel bad about not helping all of them. Pirating something can still help the creators buy creating more attention. You might not pay for it but the friend you are telling about it, might. Or you might pay later after having more money.