Maybe do some research as to what shows you MUST have. Then decide if the majority of them are regular tv, maybe you can go with an antenna and Tivo/Tablo, etc type dvr.
As for channels you MUST have that might be "cable only", I submit that most people look at this the wrong way. You don't really want/need the channels, you want the particular SHOW. Today there's more choices all the time in getting that, that's probably cheaper than a "$100+ per month" cable sub.
My wife and I went to Charter/Spectrum local office this past Sunday, turned in their dinosaur dvr, and dumped the tv portion of our double play. We are now using a Tivo and an outside antenna system to get 95% of our programming. Hardly missing anything at all.
We want to see the new "The Mist" series coming out on Spike tv, so what we will do, is wait until they ALL air, then subscribe to an OTT service for a month, and marathon them as they are all then likely to be VOD at that point.