They cancel so much stuff that it’s not even worth getting into a Netflix show because it’ll probably be cancelled after one season.

Yeah. There was definitely some business goon looking at a spreadsheet and saying "Most shows get the max audience inside the first three seasons, so we should just cancel everything inside the first three seasons" without really considering what that means for the business model long term.

HBO was THE most recognizable brand name for QUALITY content in the entire industry, and they killed it in favor of ‘max’

Should be noted that they got bought out by the Discovery Channel precisely because the Discovery brand schlock was able to churn enormous profits relative to Warner.

Just like Boeing putting the useless McDonnell Douglas bean counters in charge of the company post merge, WB put the people who ran Discovery into the ground in charge. Sad to watch.

Boeing is testing the bounds of "too big to fail".

One thing about Max is that I don't really pay for it. I just get the service gratis through AT&T. I have to wonder how much of their business model effective boils down to "since people just subscribe and forget we can charge them indefinitely for schlook they'd normally click past on terrestrial TV".

I think this is the real wage of modern Streaming. An entire business model built on elderly people who never cancel anything.