The streaming services were always going to struggle once the content creation starting drying up, the population has had almost a year to watch everything they have even a small interest in and re-watch the ones they like, so it would seem time for some to re-evaluate the value proposition, particularly as usage is starting to drop to virtually nothing (at least for me it has) and thumbing through the genre lists is tedious.
Netflix original films haven't helped with their debatable quality.
For the time being I am going to continue to pay as I am sharing the cost, they will improve once production can start again, albeit that is a while away yet, probably 6 months before new programming can get to the screen, allowing for post production etc...
However I am starting to think that I can do, as others have suggested, and swap between services on a rotation, a month is normally enough to get through any new items of interest on a particular service and then move on to the next one.
To be honest, regarding back catalogue series, I have want I really want, with a few more to buy, I will be getting a NAS to store those on and stream stuff I really want to re-watch and pay when there is something I want to see, which I can then consider buying and ripping (such as The Expanse) so I am not paying for months, when I am not watching, just to keep the title available.
Although that approach means wasted discs, the fact that series/franchises do move between services or become unavailable for periods, it does mean I have access to my favourites all the time rather than being forced to double up on streaming subscriptions, that I only need access to a fraction of the total catalogue available.
Whilst there is a cost to having what you want when you want it, it seems an awful lot of money goes to the streaming services to just have the service (contract fees to the creators e.g), however that is of course the consequence of someone else storing the content, to make it available anywhere anytime.
The main thing that is good about all of this is that you can pick and choose which service to pay for and for how long at anytime, 5 minutes at the keyboard or on the touchscreen and you have access to loads for a "pay how often you want" price, rather than being tied in for 12 months.
This months round ups of what the streaming services are bringing is fairly uninteresting for me, making me think more about how much cheaper in the long run a NAS would be, I mean how often will I be desperate for a 4k film, that I don't currently own and need to stream.
A NAS and a coupe of services will probably be the way I end up going, gives the best of both worlds then.