It's everything I can do to police the subscriptions that my wife and children think we should have. How you people don't have subscription fatigue I'll never know... it's like having debt standing over your head, but even with a thousand year mortgage I would make some progress in paying it off. Subscriptions? It's there forever. Even worse, sometimes the payment goes up.

There is no convenience in subscriptions, just some sort of pathology akin to recreational heroin, where it lulls you into a narcotic coma, death just waiting a few years down the road.

> And there was a brief period in the 2010s where I could almost say that about movies.

There was never any such time. There was a time when Netflix had a catalog of a few thousand movies. My Plex server has 6700, and I'm not even hardcore. I estimate that were I to get every new release, and work backwards through previous years to 1995 or so, I'd need storage for at least 30,000 movies just for English language titles. Television is an order of magnitude larger still, and that's if I stay away from reality tv shows. Organizing these would become a burden... if lumped all into the same library, a person might have trouble paging through all the movies that started with S just to find what they were looking for (already started to become an issue at about 5000). I'll need to start saving up for the two synology expansion bays that my nas supports.