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I have no problem paying for content. However, I'm not going to feel guilty for not going to a movie theater early so that I can see all of the trailers and commercials that are shown before the movie I want to see. I'm also not going to feel guilty for fast forwarding through commercials on TV.

Content creators are not entitled to decide what ads I choose to see and not see.

Movies themselves are full of advertising; the protagonist could use Apple products for example.

They have the right to demand compensation, but the appropriate way to do that is to gatekeep - i.e. don't provide access until the user pays (or promises to pay).

When they serve content with ads, they are not demanding anything.

The Open Internet for the Rich that we all envisioned.

The internet was better when content creators did it for the lulz instead of chasing money.

I don't care, at all.

Yes, they do. It's called a server-side paywall.