You did. You said that seeing a return on their investment wouldn't make the show a success. Amazon keeps telling us what their goal was and how they met that goal. Yet you keep denying those statements to argue "We don't know". I'm not the one that is having trouble processing anything here lmao.
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Amazon made $469 billion in 2021. A $465 million season and $250 million for rights is not going to hurt them in the long run. It might hurt the ambitions of Amazon Studios but they would likely recover just fine as well.