It's like linear TV. No one complains about the "non-stop" aspect there.

The autoplay-next-thing can be disabled in the settings though, although it'll still auto-play a trailer after 15s if you complete a movie or whole series, which I loathe since it's a real mood killer after movies (I very much enjoy chilling or discussing while credits roll).

For me it was not because of linear programming, but because the ads became ever more obnoxious and interrupting - first it was simple ad blocks. 5min, nice, take a pee. Then the stations increased the loudness of ad spots, well fuck your ears if you decided to not take a pee. Then stations started putting layers of ads above the content and the last fad before I decided to tv-exit was that stations PiP-ed the content right in the middle of action scenes or whatnot - at 25% of screen estate, and the rest 75% was ads. Also, quality of content that was not US cinema radically decreased - Germans who know the Galileo of pre-2000 know what I mean... it's all about the TV form of clickbait, aka "eyeball-baiting", now.