Don't give them any ideas. Could you imagine having to have separate subscriptions for O'Reilly, Shuster, and Penguin, etc.

They already got the idea. Look up the "O'Reilly Learning Platform"

Used to be some of my favorite tech books, but these days it's so damn hard to figure out what books they still print if any, so I have mostly moved over to No Starch Press as my default goto for tech books.

I find that alright actually. It gives one access to a lot of books, not just O'Reilly ones. You can scan trough a lot of books there, and buy paper copies (elsewhere) of those you want for your bookshelf

Oh, I don't mind it either. It's not like they're stopping to sell paper copies. I used it a long time ago, my employer had a company account, it was great.