Too engaging is part of the problem, of course. A public park or beach might arguably less engaging than the commercially driven next season of that show on Netflix. Doesn't mean that there shouldn't be thriving parks/beachs.

Or.. that there cannot be thriving parks and beachs. There provably are. There are also lousy ones overrun with trash that no one likes or uses.

So the issue would seem to be - how best do we make the open source, public funded options more like the parks and beaches that everyone uses, and less like the ones that people hate...without a profit motive.