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iTunes isn't much different from any of the "streamers". They still license media to you while reserving the right to withdraw it from you at any time, and stream it to you on-demand. The only thing that's different is the pricing model.
The article mentions that Plaza doesn’t like streaming services because she can’t figure them out. It has nothing to do with ideology.
To be fair, it's the only platform that lets you download the media AFAIK, and you can use ViWizard to remove DRM from the files once you've downloaded them.
You also know where the content is.
It's not just the cost of the 20 subscriptions you need to watch the top 20 shows or whatever. It's also the "which platform actually has it?" Digital purchases, for the most part, are generally not platform exclusive. You don't have to say "I need HBO (I mean Max) to watch this show and CBS (I mean paramount?) to watch this one", with 10 different watch lists and each app being fundamentally broken in a slightly different way. It's not self hosting, but the difference in convenience between buying digital content (even with DRM) and streaming libraries is huge.