Exactly. Now just to watch something, I first have to figure out on which app it is. Then I have to check if I have a subscription for that app, maybe as part of the parents cable bundle, maybe it comes with prime but with ads. Oh that show was sold to another streaming service.

Then you launch it and you have the opening jingles and ads. Then the menu takes forever to load. Then you find your show. It crashes because most TVs come with decade old hardware running Android TV at 4K. You try again. You hit pause to go pee, you come back the TV went to standby and closed the app so you start all over again.

My media collection? 10 seconds and it’s streaming off my NAS over SMB. It’s literally easier, faster and better to pirate the content. By the time we’re done logging into 5 different apps the show finished downloading on the PC. By the time you’re done you’re wondering if you still want to even watch the show, and it’s in glorious 720p as you learn you have the base plan only.