You can easily buy and cancel what you want when you want, so that is the not cable-like development.
I do not see why people should fee they are owed all the content in the world for $x.
The important part is the creator/curator/seller of the content and the purchaser of the content are not held hostage by a monopoly/monopsony distributor.
Why do actors and movie studios, producers, and glorified CDNs/streaming services think they are entitled to tens of millions of dollars for producing a TV show? They create mindless entertainment for society and yet they are so highly compensated. Yeah, I don't feel like I owe them anything.
Because that is the agreement they made for selling their labor/services/content to the buyers of the labor/services/content.
> I don't feel like I owe them anything.
Correct, you do not owe them anything.
If you don't see the value in the entertainment those companies provide, you're probably not the target audience.
People just want to pay for what they want. What is so hard about that?
I don't want cable with 500 channels of no interest. I also don't want to deal with subscribe/cancel 20 services as shows come and go.
Just make it simple ffs.
Media companies have been using the value of "content you want to watch" to subsidize "content you don't know you want to watch" for about a century now, the back catalogs are what will keep you paying but that only retains value so long as new content can be added to it.
It's $40/season, but it's available.
Or if the price is too high, I will find something better to do with my time. Same as every other entertainment option in life.