You know what's kinda funny? Groups like Amazon and Netflix going "HEY! WE NEED TO MAKE THIS EASIER TO PICK UP IN THE MIDDLE SO FOLKS CAN JUST BINGE WATCH IT IN THE BACKGROUND ALL THE TIME!"
But the thing is, we had that, we had that in the form of incredibly long run (like 24-48+ episode seasons) of television shows, where you didn't know if folks were picking it up in the middle or not, so any 'plot' tended to be pearl strung across a background or only across 2-3 episode arcs. But they got rid of these because it meant that they had to pay union rates to actors, writers, and directors, instead truncating stuff enormously. They got rid of filler episodes with character development and background details because they wanted to have short, engaging, single sitting long running things.
They want to insert advertising into everything, but we found that sweet spot too, with daytime television, and instead they just cram the fucking things interupting the middle of any given show instead of putting them into natural breaks. But they got rid of these because they beat out cable and network television by not having advertisements at all, and now they're all super fucking exclusive and focused so even the adverts are boring as fuck rather than hiliarious little things like we had in the 90s.
Techbros are the worst kind of capitalist because they never pay attention to shit that happened before so they waste so much fucking money reinventing the goddamn wheel and forcing the rest of us to sit through it, then acting offended when we mock them for it.
