Yeah it became one of those cliches everyone repeats about it being 'the Qwikster debacle'. Complete nonsense. They discounted streaming to move their customer base into it, and that created a deficit when they had to charge for it. There was gonna be pain. If you look at the numbers, they had returned to full growth and higher subscriber numbers within 9 months but now completely butterflied into a streaming company ready for the future.

Only thing I think it might have hurt a bit is that Netflix remains too low a price IMO.