HBO Max has been dropping content ever sense the Warner merge. I totally believe the plan is to kill it and move everything to a discovery+ combined platform.
as a Person that only has Discovery+ and has no interest in HBOMax I hate they are doing that. Discovery+ is a great low cost streaming service that I get a ton of value from.
Discovery+ is our “white noise” streaming source to put on when we feel we need to have “chatter” and “activity” in the background during a WFH workday.
Pull up any of the hundred generic home improvement shows, hit play, leave it on all day. Stuff goes on you don’t need to pay hard attention to, or can pay soft attention to if you’re trying to think about something else to trigger a lateral thought, just like looking up from a laptop in a cafe or open plan office.
With HBO content, you might accidentally feel you should watch something. Never happens with Discovery+!
Re-watching Dirty Jobs or Mythbusters, or watching Good eats, or Worst Cooks In America....
They are reducing redundancy, getting bad assets off their books, and reducing costs. These streaming services (minus Netflix) are not profitable.
Some of the Hollywood trades reported that HBOMax Kids programming isn't highly watched. Let a service with better kid viwership numbers license it instead.