At least for media, piracy websites have a more extensive catalogue (of course) but they also have better privacy which is crazy. And they also allow you to use ad blockers. Sites you pay for would still show ads sometimes and don’t even allow VPNs.
At that point there is no point on paying for streaming and if you wanted to support the creators you could do it separetely with merch, other proyects they have or direct donations if any of those are aviable.
I don’t watch a lot of films or TV so I used to buy blu-rays and rip them myself but I really don’t want to store a load of useless discs in my house. If companies offered DRM-free digital purchases of the remuxed blu-ray files then I’d pay but since that’s nowhere near being the case, I guess it’s piracy for me.