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It did. They raised the price and I immediately dropped to a plan that was cheaper than the one I had before. They lost money on me and I assume others, because they dialed back on the price change and brought it back into a reasonable range.
Sure, cancelling completely would have hurt them by an extra $10/mo, but then I'm stuck with a device that I can't use at all, or I'm spending 50-100 times as much money to buy the same bullshit from someone else.
You're acting like it's the only option, but it's not. You don't need to lock yourself into a walled garden. You don't need to buy into a sunk cost fallacy. Even participating a little perpetuates and reinforces the bullshit you're complaining about, and they're never gong to suddenly give in to the way things should be. Stop letting these companies hold what you want hostage, dictating how you view your options.
Do you use a smartphone?
You're never going to change the world alone. There aren't enough people with your attitude of "cut everything completely" to ever make a change. There has to be compromise somewhere, on both sides.
If someone bought a thing, they are entitled to use that thing. If the maker makes it unusable, then their options for use are limited. 99.9% of people aren't going to learn how to reverse engineer a game console to figure out how to jailbreak it, and without AI assistance, that usually takes multiple years to figure out, which is usually promptly patched out in an automatic mandatory update. Most people aren't going to even bother, so they will either pay more to keep the use, or throw it out. And for most people, they aren't throwing it out.
Right, because the only alternative is reverse engineering professional hardware. /s That's seriously what you think? No wonder you feel "compromise" is your best option. Good luck with that.
So, what would you propose instead?
I have a Series X that I bought when they first came out, 6 years ago. That's it. No other consoles, no PC.
What's your solution to "fight the man" that allows me to game on the weekends?