I never subscribe to any music/movie services. If I can find them I buy DVDs and if I can’t I download them.
these services are still ok for both suggestions and hard to find media
I let the Deezer bot surprise me OPM and I absolutely loved it
I also use it to listen to the Chinese rap, which would be a pain to get otherwise
Otherwise their human curated playlists are real good
But I agree with you, it's not how you "own" media. You only get the service to access media
I find DVDs mostly pointless now. I've started seeing some from around 2000 which are now unplayable.