One of the real contributing factors to this are the people who unironically are in favor of owning nothing and being happy.  They don't want the burden of having to manage the space for physical media so they prefer streaming, Pandora, clouds, etc.  Part of them thinks these services will reliably always have access to their stuff one way or another.  I however have learned in the 90s that things on the internet that you've relied on for a long time can suddenly disappear forever.  And even before that, countless shows that I've loved got cancelled or just stopped airing in an era before entire series were available on dvd as the norm.<br><br>So when say, Discovery decides to nuke much of HBO Max's cartoon catalog from what I've heard, my friends complain about those shows no longer being accessible at all.  I said the solution was always to have physical copies as backup available somewhere and that the studios would've made tons of money off the dvd sales.  They responded with basically that they wouldn't have made enough profit, so therefore not worth it to have physical media releases.  Not in an explanatory way, but in a "well of course that's how it is and should be" way.  As if the inevitable natural progression of technology is the &lt;blank&gt;as a service model, and everything you "own" is ethereal.