I also cut cable 8 years ago and haven't turned back.

It was hard at first for sports because I had to watch random internet streams that were often bad quality, getting shutdown or full of browser ads (just use adblocker.)

In the last few years it has gotten a lot better. Almost every network has an AppleTV/Amazon Fire/Hulu app or online streaming service with cable quality streaming. Most of them require you to have cable subscription, but thats easily circumvented by using a friend's TV login.