It might just be because the public is now spread over so many services...

Are those morons trying to compare the numbers from years ago when you had like one or two nation wide channels with the modern landscape? And the one episode was announced like a week ahead and everybody would be tuning in to watch it at the same time. Now you stream an entire show at will.

It's moronic to want to use the same metric as a measure of success when clearly the entire landscape has changed.