There's skill in being able to manage a declining or non-growth business in a way that still pleases your consumer base (and therefore reduces your attrition rate). Not everyone does it well.
Is the statement in the linked article that "The Internet Movie Database functions as a loss leader for the e-commerce giant" backed up somewhere?
IMDB offers both Pro Subscriptions. IMDB offers data licenses that the company claims are licensed "to a wide selection of businesses including movie studios, cable companies, websites, video retailers, software developers, electronics manufacturers, mobile applications, and more."[1]
IMDB offers advertising and has 250M visitors per month.[2]
None of these point to the likelihood that IMDB is a loss leader.
Hisense has never operated at the top end of the spectrum. They can sell these TVs for $1000 because they're buying the cheapest panels that the actual high-end TVs aren't using.
If a business can't pay a living wage, it's not really a successful business. I, too, could become fabulously wealthy selling shoes if someone just have me shoes for $1 so I could resell them for $50.
Progression is your level of skill as you get better at a game (whether it's something simple or its chess). I've had narrative events happen in games that, because they are guided by decisions of other players, I still remember more than actual stories in video games.
The idea is interesting, but at the same cost (or more) as a console, or the cost of a dozen board games, it falls into a space where the market is going to be limited.
I would definitely try this if it was available at a board game cafe, just not something I need for home.
The PR site as well as the main site refer to it as Apple TV+, so not sure where the renaming announcement is. But it's un-Apple to have the + missing on the press release for F1...