TLDR: Stop using big tech products, cancel your Netflix subscription, and trash the notion of convenience being a good thing. Embrace free and open source software.

Big tech companies such as Apple, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are trying their hardest to enforce a subscription model on many services. They are trying their hardest to make it seem like going into the future it will be the only option, problem for them is that it will never be only option no matter how hard they try. But they will make the other option as inaccessible as possible.

There are lots of alternatives to these big tech services that do respect you, problem is big tech doesn't want you using them. Somewhat recently, Samsung has locked the bootloaders on all of their new smartphones to force you to use their locked down distro of Android.

More recently, Sony has announced that soon there won't be new games sold with physical media anymore. This however, was entirely predictable if you've been watching the gaming console space for the past 15 years. Many games don't even contain the game data on the discs, just a digital download.

Gaming consoles have been enshifited for a long time, and a predictable target of enshitification considering that you're buying a device built and entirely controlled by a big tech company who restricts what you are allowed to do with capable hardware you bought and payed for. We started seeing "You'll own nothing and be happy" late in the 7th console generation, and it became solidified with the (IMO worst) 8th console generation. Hell, the 8th generation is where you started seeing digital-only consoles like the Xbox One S. 9th generation continues the trend, and 10th generation will only kill off the notion of you being able to own your games, since a good portion of physical games nowadays are just keys for digital downloads.

Remember when Sony stopped you from running GNU/Linux on your PlayStation 3 because some people were using it for nefarious purposes? It's often speculated to be one of the inspirations behind the large cyber attacks against Sony. People were rightfully pissed that they couldn't use the hardware they bought and payed for for what they wanted to. If you buy a gaming console, you are at the whims of whatever Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, or whoever else decide is okay. If they decide a feature is bad, they can gut it and you can't do anything about it. Stop buying these tyrant devices.

What you can do to actually own your shit:

So when it comes to gaming consoles, don't buy 'em. The only "good" ones are the Steam Deck and Steam Machine since they are PCs that allow you to do what you'd like with them, and even these have flaws when compared to a standard PC.

While we're on the topic of PCs, replace Windows or macOS with GNU/Linux if you haven't already. GNU/Linux is free (as in freedom) software that won't get in the way of using your computer how you want to use it. There will be a learning curve, but it is just as capable of a desktop operating system as Windows or macOS is.

Cancel your video streaming service subscriptions, whether it be Hulu, Netflix, or whatever else. Source media that provides DRM-free downloads, although depending on your needs some content might not have a legally endorsed way for you to own properly own them, and you might have to sail the high seas (won't be explicit about this - got a post removed for it some months ago) to obtain them at your own risk.

Cancel your music streaming services, because services like Spotify or Apple Music really suck beyond them being DRM subscription services. A great amount of artists put their music on DRM-free platforms, and you can also use tools like yl-dlp to download music off YouTube (no, this isn't illegal) and with either solution, you can use a proper media player (i.e Audacious, Strawberry, Rhythmbox) that is just way nicer to use and has many more useful features than the very basic Spotify or Apple Music media players, not to mention they use native toolkits and are lightweight compared to the Electron-based Spotify desktop client.

Stop using Adobe's creative software. It will suck having to relearn new software, but for most of what's Adobe provides are many alternatives that are just as good and sometimes even objectively better.

Microsoft Office and Google Docs? Well, Google Docs is bested by just about anything out there. For Microsoft Office, you might have to relearn something like LibreOffice, but it's well worth it. LibreOffice might not be for everyone (it's got a different featureset than Microsoft Office - in some ways better, in some ways worse) but if you care about actually owning your shit, than you should at least consider it.

This isn't the end of the list, just a few notable examples.

Aren't these "hard to use" / less convenient

Sometimes no, and sometimes yes depending on what it is. But here's the thing, convenience is not a good thing to the degree that we have it today. Modern technology is often oversimplified, and you are discouraged from solving problems when they do arise. Big tech has made their solutions the default, and have been increasingly making things more convenient at the expense of functionality and so you don't think about the idea that there might be an alternative to their stranglehold.

Concluding thoughts

You sound like a "insert X here" elitist

When people suggest alternatives (especially free and open source software and operating systems like GNU/Linux) they are often charged with this accusation without having done anything to earn it. Elitists gatekeep people, I am doing the opposite and trying to encourage more to give FOSS a shot.

I think basically anyone could switch over to free and open source software that actually respects you, no matter what you do. Some areas might not be as developed as others, but more users will lead to great improvements. The more people using FOSS, the better.

Conclusion

Big tech has made themselves the default choice, whether their products are actually the best or not. You don't have to put up with subscription services if you choose not to. If the lure of convenience is too hard to resist, than it is your choice to continue using services that are enshitifying.