Had the CEO come out and explained to the customers about the studios and distributors causing them angst BEFORE the price increase, dollars to donuts, there wouldn’t have been as many people dropping. This is just frosting on the cake for those who were ticked already.
Netflix is in a death spiral. I will be surprised if they pull out at all.
I think they were expecting that their customers are on the internet and would know this stuff. I’d heard about the licensing fees dramatic increase months before the price hike was announced.
I think people just like to whine and complain. All the moves make perfectly good sense, out here in real life prices go up. Also they’ve learned they really have 3 clearly identifiable groups of customers.
They’re responding to a changing market. That market might be changing in a way they can’t survive at all, but their responses make sense if you just take the time to pay attention to the situation they’re in.