About 5 years ago, we gave up, fed-up with the cable companies (in our case comcast) constant game of raising prices behind our back, forcing us to spend hours arguing or threatening to leave, in order to get the price down again through fake promos.
In our case we went to Roku, with a few constant channel including Hulu+ Live, Netflix and Amazon prime (which we already had).
Then on occasion we take a subscription to another channel for a month or so to watch a specific show, then cancel the subscription (like stars or apple TV etc…)
Recently Hulu live raised their price so much we gave up the Live part, and are not really missing it. We still have live options for free with Roku that are enough for actual live events.
With the actor strike, Hulu has dried up a bit too, so right now we are doing more of apple TV.
In the end we are watching a lot less live TV stuff, and we have the flexibility to activate a channel when we want it and stop it when we don’t. I find we watch a lot less garbage, and only what we like.
I would not go back to live TV for anything