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Those are the only two I have right now. Lol And free Prime, until the ads kick in.
I have been getting Prime ads for a while now and they are all ads for Amazon. Sometimes, the same ads would play back to back. If the continuous ads about Amazon weren't bad enough, they were of horrendous production quality as well.
I struggle to fathom the idea of paying for 3 subscription services and thinking that's ok. That's not to bash, but I can't imagine that's any more convenient than pirating.
Kids. Easier for them to use and find something rather than having to download them.
If it weren't for kids, yeah, I probably wouldn't subscribe to any.
Paying is more convenient because you don't have to set it up and maintain it.
Switching between 3 providers to maybe find your show sounds like a lot of maintaining
It is. I've got a Roku TV, which helps - I can search from the main screen, and it shows me which provider has the show.
It's a matter of priorities. Figuring out a pirating rig, how to work it into my life, how to use it, etc has a high level of inconvenience. For you, it sounds like paying multiple services has a high level of inconvenience. We each go with what is most convenient for ourselves.
Sky TV in the UK displays (nearly) it all in a unified interface, I'm not sure how they have managed to do that and Google still hasn't on android TV.
also funnily on my Nvidia shield, I used to use the Plex discover feature to list all my streaming service content next to my downloaded media library. But I think I remember the linking into the actual streaming app was broken last time I tried it—maybe a short lived bug, not sure.