I am not stating that the sky is falling or individuals haven’t saved money over the years. It’s the fact that the streaming price are going to rise and
it’s probably going to be a much quicker pace now than anyone is prepared for.
There does seem to be a "sky is falling" mentality among some OTT live TV service customers when the price of their service goes up $5. I'm a member of various Facebook cord-cutting groups, and I hear many people complain they are cancelling or moving to another service when a price increase for their service is announced. But most of these complainers tend to be of the younger generation and likely aren't accustomed to the annual $5+ increase most traditional pay TV services have been guilty of for the past couple of decades.
I fully expect annual price increases for these services. But these increases will be comparable to those (in dollar amount) to traditional service increases. It's not like traditional services are going to suddenly stop raising prices, even bleeding customers over price as they are. In fact, it will probably get worse to make up for the losses in the customer base. Above in this thread, people speculated how OTT services will nickel and dime customers for various features and channel access. But those assumptions are clearly based on the kinds of things traditional services have been doing for years, and will continue to do.
Bottom line, in my case, YouTube TV would have to triple its price for it to even start approaching how much I would have to pay for a comparable level of service were I to go back to cable. In other words, they would have to effectively raise my price by $10 every year (cancelling my grandfathered price), whether by nickel and diming or raising the base price or a combination, for the next eight years to get into
current cable price territory for me. No service would continue to exist if it tried something like that.