Regarding the TOD:
I know that for years, we resisted adding on HBO and HBO Max for some reason. Now that we have those, I'm very glad we added them. If I'm remembering right, we got HBO for a specific series, convinced we'd drop it soon after, but I'm glad we kept it.
On the other hand, we got Acorn as a free trial, and found one series we really enjoyed, "The Madame Blanc Mysteries" - but somehow not much else felt to our liking on Acorn. So we watched the several seasons which were available of "The Madame Blanc Mysteries" and then discontinued Acorn.