I think it's also worth acknowledging that subtitles have gotten a lot better. The old school white on black subtitles that I grew up with in the 90s and 00s were very in the way and often added as an afterthought without much care. You had to be hard of hearing or deaf to put up with them. Hell, my hearing father got annoyed with the rest of us for using them. Honestly I'm annoyed they never made a separate screen to put under the TV that would just display the line 21 captions. Hell, I'd love a subtitle standard that would allow me to move them to a dedicated screen under my monitor today, but that's a lot less realistic.
These days they're often unobtrusive and don't feel like they're taking away from what's going on. Though I do wish more content creators were like Technology Connections and made a point to keep important visuals out of the caption zone.