Who is willing to do that? I bet many people will opt for illegal downloads again.
It's amazing to me that the company feels that the benefits of this outweigh the goodwill it costs them among the fanbase. Trekkies are going apeshit over this. It makes me more hesitant to buy Star Trek media in the future, and I'll admit I'm not one to change my buying patterns based on companies' behavior ordinarily.
The timing was so abrupt that I really doubt this was just a horrible rash decision. That's totally still possible though.
I think a lot of people will just do without.
My family wanted to watch Mandalorian so we subscribed to Disney+. It took us two months to get through the series so it only cost $15 or so which seems like a pretty good deal for that many hours of TV. Since I subscribed via Apple, cancelling was painless. We did the same with Peacock for a different show.
HBO, Hulu, and Netflix seem to have enough stuff that we watch that we've stayed subscribed to those for years now.