Absolutely agree with you.

I've rebuilt my collection 4x so far in the last 15 years. 1000+ titles each time. 2 were due to hardware failure, one was ransomware, and last current rebuild is due to losing access to gsuite drive.

My current thinking is "f this". Paying for the streaming platforms is enough to satisfy my media consumption. At this age and stage in life, I barely have time to watch anything anyways. YouTube is my go to and I ended up paying for premium.