if this was for the money, they’d make a better product.
I'm not really familiar with who is in what role here, but the audience is not the people who get to "vote with their wallets" here. Since it's on a subscription service broadcast, all the audience can do is cancel their subscription, which the producers are counting on not happening because there are other shows included with the subscription. Every subscriber is funding the producers whether they ever watch the show or not. Further, if this is Amazon, every person using their shipping services is funding it because the streaming stuff is packaged in with a paid account.
When a producer is involved and bankrolling media, they are the customer. If the producer wants a bad product, they will pay for it. If the producer is sufficiently shielded from the end audience, they don't really have any drawback.
I'm not really familiar with who is in what role here, but the audience is not the people who get to "vote with their wallets" here. Since it's on a subscription service broadcast, all the audience can do is cancel their subscription, which the producers are counting on not happening because there are other shows included with the subscription. Every subscriber is funding the producers whether they ever watch the show or not. Further, if this is Amazon, every person using their shipping services is funding it because the streaming stuff is packaged in with a paid account.
When a producer is involved and bankrolling media, they are the customer. If the producer wants a bad product, they will pay for it. If the producer is sufficiently shielded from the end audience, they don't really have any drawback.
tl;dr: audience =/= customer