We use Linux in my house. My problem is with the quality of the video they send to my device. It is not worth a penny because it is actively disagreeable to watch. There is some good content there, not more than a small percentage, but I understand their fight with other companies greatly impacts availability.
Building a movie library with 1 to 4 movies a month you actually want to watch on Apple TV seems to be the better mid-term investment if you want to stay digital for the same price of an UHD enabled Netflix subscription.
I own a bunch of UHD-Blurays, but the friction to get up from the couch there is also quite large and you can't just decide to watch them on vacation.
Also Netflix bitrate for UHD is abysimal and rarely has any third party stuff.
Amazon bitrates are also good, but I lost a lot of trust in their mid/long term commitment to user needs.
I would be in the metric as well, while detesting the service. However, I'm not the only person in my home and it's not always easy to transition the family onto my local solutions. It's why I have YouTube premium as well, while letting the family know it's easy to grab all of that content and self host. It's like the chance of seeing something to watch you didn't already know about outweighs the cost and quality of service.
The problem is not what you can watch on Netflix. The two main problems I have are that Netflix is not a one stop shop and that Netflix turns my device into my adversary. The latter means I won't ever use the anything Netflix had made.
It’s fine if you don’t think there’s anything worth watching on Netflix. Worth knowing that more than 300 million people around the world disagree: https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/netflix-subscribers-300-mil...