... And, secondly, who cares if we speak about hobby!
It depends on each person's motivation.
Some people are interested in sports and pay a professional to install a dish with a motor and watch feeds like that ( FTA or BISS). Others want to watch paid bouquets of 2 -3 satellites and are happy with just one DiSEqC 1.0. There are some that are only interested in the latest receiver model and 2 meter antennas for the C band.
The only motivation that I had in 1999 when I bought my first analogue receiver, was simply to watch the only Bulgarian satellite channel (here in Belgium).
Now in 2019 my motivation is not to pay for TV subscriptions and watch channels from different countries. I am interested in the different cultures across Europe. I passively understand several European languages, but I also watch channels from Greece, Hungary or Brazil without understanding their languages.
For me, spending money on dishess, receivers, converters, DiSEqC, cables etc is O.K.
But for me, it would be a humiliation to pay 50 euros a month for a subscription from Sky or Chanal+ ( the french one). The pay TV business model is not my cup of tea. Television content is better when it's free.
I also find that it is better not to depend on the Internet for watching TV.
I do not want my internet provider to know what time which channel I watched.