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The language restrictions are absurd. When I visited friends in Germany, there’s lots of content on Netflix that we can’t watch together because subs are only available in German.

I really don’t get what they intend to gain by geo-restricting languages, but it seems to have slipped their minds that people travel or migrate.

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I would assume it's to prevent buying accounts in locations with cheaper pricing due to local affordability and using them internationally. A Turkish or African continent country would be a significantly cheaper subscription price than say Singapore or Switzerland.

You can still do that. The subtitle languages are restricted to your current location, not to your account's associated country.

It's probably a side-effect of licensing deals in regions. Besides the audio/video content, the subs are also included in those (at least I think, it being the reason makes the most sense)

All those region regulations worked ok-ish back when globalisation was not a thing. They are very outdated in the current times. But hey, they still make the big players a lot of money so nobody wants to change.

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