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Yep. I still have my subscription going because I have friends/family on it, but now that I've finished Succession, I don't really use it at all.
It's a real shame what happened to HBO, and I don't think it's ever coming back. Surprisingly Apple TV+ is the closest thing I've found in terms of what made HBO appealing in the first place, and as sad as it is, I think that is solely due to the fact that Apple TV+ is really just a passion project for the company, who do not need to rely on it as a revenue stream to survive. But it's still not quite there.
Hopefully all of the industry strikes dismantle the current big players and allow more production-oriented companies to thrive. Though I doubt it because reality TV does not require union writers/actors to survive and that's what these companies are banking on surviving off of.