The problem isn’t so much the number of streaming services as it is the fact that they’re all vertically integrating so each has their exclusive content and is the only game in town to get it. If production and distribution were broken up so that the same content were available from a number of competing platforms, it wouldn’t matter that there were “too many” because you wouldn’t feel like you needed them all to avoid missing out.
The problem isn’t so much the number of streaming services as it is the fact that they’re all vertically integrating so each has their exclusive content and is the only game in town to get it. If production and distribution were broken up so that the same content were available from a number of competing platforms, it wouldn’t matter that there were “too many” because you wouldn’t feel like you needed them all to avoid missing out.
A world where you could picked based on the user experience of the apps instead of slice of content? Sign me up. To hell with that HBO Max app.