It’s still kind of an issue of their own making though. Their metric for acceptable viewing numbers is ever changing. And they tend to pick and choose what counts as a view as well.

So if you don’t watch it in their time frame and/or on whatever platform they extrapolate view counts from then you basically didn’t watch the show to them.

if one show does really well, now all those other shows are expected to reach around the same number without taking into consideration all the circumstances.