Exactly what I was thinking the last time I was on Netflix, which was a couple of weeks ago at this point and spent a good 40 minutes realizing that Netflix had now become the "vast wasteland".
With delivery platforms all now funding their own content, the streaming entertainment landscape starts to look ... exactly like the old TV networks. Just the names have changed - replace 'ABC', 'NBC', 'CBS' with 'Netflix', 'HBO', 'Amazon'. It convergent evolution, and all of the things that drove the dreck that was on broadcast TV in the old days are there to drive it now, only with even better and realtime ratings data and targeted ads.
With delivery platforms all now funding their own content, the streaming entertainment landscape starts to look ... exactly like the old TV networks. Just the names have changed - replace 'ABC', 'NBC', 'CBS' with 'Netflix', 'HBO', 'Amazon'. It convergent evolution, and all of the things that drove the dreck that was on broadcast TV in the old days are there to drive it now, only with even better and realtime ratings data and targeted ads.