I used to be very pro-streamer before all the price hikes and now it's gotten out of hand. I also think people have rose tinted glasses about cable and video rental stores. Subscribing to all the major platforms ad-free tiers is still cheaper than cable/satellite with the benefit of on-demand viewing. Flipping through channels, dealing with even longer ads, and having to sit in front of your TV at a specific time to see a show is fucking awful. Having to drive/walk to a video store, hope they have what you want in stock and not dealing with late fees, damaged discs also fucking sucks.
The ability to buy/rent movies and TVs has never gone away but people act like it has. I've built a large digital video library for incredibly cheap. If you're adamant about having physical media their are constant sales on Amazon. If you think a season of a TV show for $20 is expensive you must have forgotten when a physical TV box set for one season ran you like $40-$80. You don't have to consume everything at once. If a streamer has something you want to watch pay the one time fee, binge it and cancel it after the 30 days. If there's a movie you want to watch you don't even have to pay the monthly fee just pay $4-$8 and rent it. People need to adjust their viewing habits.
You should also take advantage of the rise of FAST (free, ad-support, television) networks. Services like Tubi, Pluto, Roku have a lot of cool stuff for free with sometimes even less ad than the paid ad-tiers of streamers. Netflix rising to $20, Disney+ rising to $15 and Apple TV+ rising to $10, Amazon inserting ads to Prime Video and the streaming clamping down on account sharing. It's gotten awful.
tl;dr. You don't need access to everything all the time. It's okay to jump around subscriptions depending on what you want to watch. Take advantage of FAST services. You can still buy/rent movies. You can still buy physical media for cheap. Cable/satellite and video rental stores fucking sucked and it's not better than what we have now.