Cable
People are leaving cable and their 8000 channel packages behind. No one wants to see more than two or five or nine, of course, and the three most wanted are introduced in the third most expensive, second most expensive and most expensive tiers. Some people would say that this is what you do when you have something people want and that this is how a market is supposed to work – I'd say this is what people do when there are oligopolies.
But I don't really care about cable. What I care about is that what it's being replaced with – ISPs, streaming services and so on – end up replicating the worst bits. Now you have exclusives on different streaming services instead, and have to pay monthly tithes to them instead of to cable companies. It's still an improvement I guess, because there are plenty of things not locked down to them. But if you look at these constructions and see a broken model, it's like seeing an alcoholic making their way home after a lot of fuss, looking like they're on the home stretch, producing a flask from their jacket, taking a swig and promptly diving off the side of the road into a warm nettle embrace.
I guess technical freedom is one thing and "business realities" are another.