I've been dabbling in torrents for almost a year now. My dad had stopped downloading "legally sourced content" probably 10 years ago because of suspicion from our ISP, and before VPNs were so popular and a dime a dozen.
Finding a certain show on torrent indexers was certainly... a challenge sometimes! Many shows that I wanted in their entirety had dead torrents with no seeders for random seasons and episodes; it was nearly impossible to find old/niche shows that I wanted because I didn't have access to any private indexers.
Our current ISP is not great either. We're paying way too much for not nearly enough. 40 mbps upload speed is plenty for everyday use, but that speed + VPN = slow seeding that takes up all of our upload bandwidth. I can't get enough ratio from seeding content to actually qualify for private indexers, so I've resorted exclusively to leeching, hence the low success rate in finding shows on public indexers.
However... I recently invested my time and some money... into getting usenet set up.
The game has changed. Finding shows is easy (with sonarr). Seasons are plentiful. I can find almost anything I want, provided it had any amount of popularity at all. Shows downloaded to completion. My hoard, satisfied, thriving, never more fulfilled.
Usenet is wonderful.
And my NAS is in danger.