@carnage4life even if they're just as expensive as the previous alternatives, I think they're (typically, and in the most meaningful ways) still better options than their predecessors.

I'd rather hail an uber than a taxi (how the hell would I even hail a taxi in the burbs?).

having thousands (millions?) of titles available to stream on demand is better than 900 channels which most of the time had nothing that I was interested in watching at the moment

i still like the cloud better than an in-house (or even colo) datacenter