It's all about money for access today. In the early days of streaming 5 years ago, studios didn't care much about streaming so they gave access to Netflix for not alot of money. If you remember Netflix used to have alot more movies 5 years ago than today. Now they want to make all original content since they will own it forever, and not have to pay higher and higher prices for access. That's why Friends and The Office are going away from Netflix, NBC kept letting the price for access go up higher and higher every year, so Netflix walked away from those. Now NBC is making their own streaming platform, it remains to be seen how many of these streaming sites people will want to subscribe to.
I don't know what Disney will do for access now. I imagine they will do whatever makes them the most money. They could lock up the movies in their vault and only allow physical disc sales. Or Netflix and Amazon could bid on them, but have to pay very high prices. Then they might not think it was worth it to stream the movies, so then they would remain in the Disney vault. I think Disney is bad for the consumer and viewer, it's better to have more studios and competition. They are quickly becoming a media monopoly. If they ever tried to buy Netflix, it would be game over for the consumer. We would all have to bow down to the great Mouse haha. I think Reed Hastings has too much pride to let that happen, but when he steps down from CEO one day who knows.
I think Netflix is great for the indie film genre, they are scooping up every new indie movie and pumping them with money to try out new ideas and there lots a good foreign films too. I always liked indie movies better than big budget movies anyway. I think it's a golden age right now for the indie film genre.