Yeah, but now there’s streaming and a boatload of old content that people can catch up on. Promotional tours and live events will suffer, of course, but that’s only for new and future content.

Granted, I don’t know how sustainable a business model relying on streaming will be in the long term. I seem to recall reading somewhere that the reason shows are disappearing from platforms is because the studios don’t want to have to pay residuals (ironically, one of the things that the writers and actors are striking over)

This is the same reason I uninstalled the Facebook app eons ago. It got so bad, every 3rd post was an ad or a “suggested page” and the option to go to my preferred view (sort by most recent, friends only) was buried in 4 layers of clicks. I was able to get around this for a while by bookmarking the “most recent” feed on the mobile site but that now just redirects to the front page. I don’t even look at Facebook any more, I just keep it around because I still get event invitations.

But of course, the developers are going to get the completely wrong message from this dropoff in engagement…