The order here is a little wrong, but it’s mostly correct.
Production houses started to see Netflix raking in cash hand over fist and decided that they could do that too and started pulling their shows.
This made Netflix need to pivot hard into in-house content in order to not look like a barren wasteland.
This is a change for the better, and it would be better still to not have arbitrary limits in place. However, considering who is in control of the FBI right now, I can’t help but feel that this is a positive change made for all the wrong reasons.
It’s a hobby, and most of the reason why is because it’s fun to get it all set up and working exactly the way you want.
I think of it like this:
Why would anyone spend all the time and money to build a hot rod when they could just drive a sensible Toyota Corolla?
You might need thicker tin foil for your hat, mate
Historically, the church was a place to connect with the local community. They were a proper third space. That seems to have changed a lot over the last 20 years. Now, it seems that the only people that still attend regularly are the “true believers” with their shitty politics and opinions.
There is probably a fascinating sociology paper somewhere about the knock on effects of the Internet becoming mainstream as it relates to church attendance.
You’re just shifting the problem down the chain. There is no guarantee that this third party would be any more trustworthy than Google. They could even be less trustworthy, in fact.