an underfunded development team. because these are basic options that people are used to (10 second skip my GOD). and aside from my first world complaining about a streaming service, it is bad for their product because they make it actively hard to consume more content (the episode selection you mentioned is crazy bad).

sometimes in Chrome, when I click the HBO Max icon I get transported back to freaking HBO Now. no lie.

>That said, it's the ONLY service I actually use consistently
>because the content is *chef's kiss* I REALLY want to drop
>Netflix but other people watch that even though I haven't
>watched that shit in I don't know how long and am usually
>disappointed whenever I do.

yeah. even though our main living room is a Roku set, I've persevered just because HBO Max has most of what I want to see. although they really should have just done a one-year deal with Roku at launch to build a better subscriber base and then blame Roku if they cannot renegotiate.