The cycle of:
Cable TV
Cable TV with a million add-on packages, eg: “oh you want to watch hockey? Thats extra. Oh you want this channel too? Different add-on”
A couple streaming services
Tons of streaming services with a mess of territorial ownership, eg: Thursday night football on Amazon, other games on different services.
We just took the cable + tons of packages model and instead ended up with a ton of services.
These days I just have HBO, Netflix, and pay for ESPN for Hockey, and even those 3 feel ridiculous. I can see why piracy is easier and more appealings