I don't see how the existence of a children's profile bothers anyone so much. It's not extra work. You don't have to scroll past it or anything. It's just a nonoffensive thing that sits there if you ever need it on the initial profile page.
But also it's just annoying. In some apps it's remembering what the heck you set the password to.
They're just sitting down for a relaxing movie or series and the first thing that comes up is the question: "You don't have kids right?"
They have an algorithm which can account for every micro-taste on the planet. What's the point of having computers if they can't properly account for the real world?
When your entire content is full of triggers for those who lost a child, what's one more trigger at the loading screen?
Because phenomenal experience of children exists unavoidably outside of Netflix
> They have an algorithm which can account for every micro-taste on the planet
Citation needed
They just need to add an option to hide the "kids" profile, which, as is being noted all over this comment thread, would be useful for a number of reasons.
Grief isn't linear.
Stockholm syndrome in full force.
Why doesn't it log in to the last used profile automatically?
At the same time, the existing one is fine for people (like me) who only use one -- as GP says, on a TV it's just a double confirm, if designed well. That said, for accounts that only have a single profile, I'm not sure why you'd show the select in the first place. Hide it by default, show it when the user creates a sub profile. DOS didn't have a login prompt.
Indeed :)