It’s too late, the die is cast. I am cutting my cable provider loose by the end of the year, letting them know that the A&E debacle was the straw that broke this camels back. Seems a lot more are doing the same. Just rolling over now and playing nice isn’t going to change things. It’s time to double-down, not got back to BAU and pretend that nothing happened.
We killed our TV 5 yrs ago (all cable and no antenna). Best thing we ever did. Not only do we save about 80-100 dollars a month, we don’t have that garbage in the house. The TV now gets used only to watch old movies on DVD and even then only 1 or 2 a month.