I got a Prime membership years ago to get low-cost fast shipping and at that time, Netflix was far superior to Prime Video. As it's gone up in price, I can justify that because I also get streaming movies & music (although I keep forgetting about the music). All in all it's a good enough deal to the point where I honestly don't even know how much I'm paying for it anymore.
enough people do this, and then the streaming services will try to fix that by insisting on long-term contracts for short-term life for the content on the service. At which point, it is not worth subscribing.
Occasionally, I play the Netflix game. I lose so often that I'm surprised when I win and find something I want to watch.
Infinite LaGrange and BG3 are much more entertaining games...
They have two tiers of video offerings that I think are anti-competitive:
1) They give away access to some stuff ad-free as part of the prime bundle.
2) The more premium part of their catalog has ads (Freevee)
(They also have a very expensive, non-differentiated service where you can buy/rent stuff, but their prices and selection are similar to other services.)
Prime Video is a standard monopolistic dumping scheme: They're providing it for free to depress streaming plan prices and starve competitors.
With Freevee, they use account data they gathered from their online shopping monopoly to provide better streaming ad targeting than anyone else can.