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The good thing is that you don't have to sign up for all the services; sign up for a few. Once you see all the content that you want, cancel and sign up for something else.
I'm not in the US, and even though most (but not all) services adjust for local pricing, finding and keeping track of where something is (often isn't, or not anymore) available to stream is more of a hassle (PITA really) than going to my favorite magnet site.
Just like streaming music where 95% of the content I want is available on all providers, I'd pay for an all-in tv-streaming service. I do buy digital/physical copies of music through Bandcamp. It's all about convenience.
Roku helps with that as it has a global search. Maybe other streaming hardware does too. Not sure.
I am happy and a bit surprised that music streaming ended up so good.
PlayStation of all places has this. I will often turn it on just to see if something is available on one of the services I share with family. Then I turn to sketchy streaming sites or the public library.