All this trouble to be able to pay Netflix and pay a VPN provider, and you wonder why people go back to torrents. On a second thought, those "blocked" countries usually don't bother prosecuting downloaders.
For example Cuba State television broadcasts movies and series downloaded online (you can sometimes spot the release group name), and they even have an specific "movies" channel. Same thing occurs in my country on a somewhat smaller scale (also State owned television). Of course you can go to the street (yeah its not prosecuted, they have formal shops and all) and buy optical media (BD or DVD) from material downloaded online, this is the most used path for the poor, without good internet or tv subscription. And even with "good" (not capped) internet, its often too slow for live streaming anyway, but you can wait a day or so for a movie to download here. Oh and i don't think a 6 USD monthly wage is good enough to pay Netflix 8 USD + VPN...
I think this mess is due to the lawyers and "IP rights" managing people. Sometimes, rarely they see reason and relax restrictions, such when dealing with the mighty Chinese market (where they can't prosecute people anyway).
I don't think anyone but some lawyers in Netflix want to block countries, but its probably stepping on someone Else's profits, the hypocrisy of it all is nauseating. Then again Netflix also does it to others with their own content, due to "commercial agreements".
When i find myself with good internet, i end playing online games rather than watching movies anyway. They have to compete with that market segment too, oh and the tons of free streaming, where even esports live streams are gaining worldwide popularity.
This is the music downloads thing all over again, how Napster (as trashy as that was) disrupted the labels model. Now its the movie studios model that has become obsolete. And people in the States are cutting subscription tv en mass, switching to streaming or going elsewhere (ie online games and back to on air "free tv").
Yeah things with streaming service are getting out of hand. Every year we have new ones coming, and the old ones loosing content. Now we will get AppleTV, Disney+, AT&T announced new streaming service, NBCUniversal, BBC Disocovery etc..
Until recently i was paying Amazon, Hulu and Netflix as i wanted legal and quality content, but for the last few months i only have Netflix left. That and ExpressVPN is enough at the moment.
All this mess on the market will just make people go back to torrenting.