If the alternative is 20 $10/month subscriptions, one $200/month one has advantages: only one bill to pay, only one set of credentials to manage, a clearer picture of how much you're actually spending every month on content.

When was the last time you paid a paper bill? Or are you not using credit cards for some reason?

I do most of my streaming through a set-top device, so I add credentials once, and ... that's it. If I happen to watch through a browser, then there are password managers, which seems like an appropriate solution for the few that choose to do this.

If there were a 'manager' that streamlined all of this, that would be great, but a 'bundler' by definition doesn't let me pick and choose services.

> When was the last time you paid a paper bill? Or are you not using credit cards for some reason?

Does it matter? Last I checked, the GP's criticisms apply to electronic bills as well.

Credit cards make the situation significantly worse, since now you're managing your credit card information (which expires every few years) across 20 sites instead of 1. That's 20 sites that could fall victim to database theft. That's 20 sites that you'd have to trust to not be the thieves themselves. At the very least, that's 20 sites where you'd have to continually update the card numbers and expiration dates and CVVs.

One can mitigate the credit card issue by using some "trusted" payment system like PayPal, but you're then still verifying 20 different bills each month, checking them against your PayPal/CC/bank statements, inspecting them for discrepancies, etc. That's made significantly easier when you only need to worry about a single large bill.

I agree that a sort of "manager" would be nice. Perhaps some sort of marketplace or metaservice for multimedia subscriptions, where it would combine each service's monthly (or perhaps yearly) cost into a single bill with a single payment method, all itemized and unified.