LB: it's amazing how much worse the experience of watching movies, TV, and anime is now than bootleg *.mkvs circa 2008. Pause buttons are laggy on most streaming service players, if they work at all, audio cuts in and out when pausing and unpausing, OSDs take up giant portions of the player window, good luck not accidentally hitting "skip intro" or "skip credits," and then this shit with subtitles.
Like, once upon a time, you had a *video* player that was good at playing *videos*. Not Hulu shows or Netflix movies, *videos*. It handled things like play/pause, subtitles, scanning forward and back, chapter navigation and the like so that every single studio making stuff didn't have to reimplement all that.