It is completely unbelievable that @medium picked this article for the weekly digest (top place).

“Human stories & ideas”. Isn't that what it says before you enter?

The question you should ask yourself isn't whether Netflix is a good way to spend your time or not - it's why you treat the creative process as something to "be done with"? Like an achievement that needs cheating tools to complete. How about you disconnect and write with pen and paper for a week and see what happens? Nobody's happier with "perfect". We ant your story to be cracked and broken. We need something that's alive in a world where the individual voice i dying.