> Navigating between the X services available to find 'thing you want to watch' is frustrating, time consuming, and expensive.

Apple TV and other TV boxes have aggregated services for a long time now. You can search for content across providers from one interface.

Pirate streaming sites aren’t exactly known for their quality, consistency, reliability, and ease of use. I bet it was more frustrating to use the pirate service, especially for those dealing with subtitles and alternate audio.

This really does come down to expense.