The thing that finally got me was a Sunday last season where my team were on at half twelve, and I had the game on one subscription, the following match on a second, and the highlights show on a third. Three logins for one afternoon of football. My dad managed with a telly and a newspaper and I have somehow made it harder.
What actually happened is the rights got carved up. The Premier League sells packages to more than one broadcaster now, and the midweek and weekend rounds do not always sit with the same one. So there is no single button any more, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling something.
A couple of things helped me stop overpaying for the privilege of confusion.
First, know who has what before the season starts, not on the day. The Premier League fixture and broadcast list goes out well in advance and it tells you which round sits where.
Second, work out which of your subscriptions you actually use once the novelty wears off. I was paying for one purely for about four matches a season. When I sat down and read through the options for following the league online properly, I realised I could drop one of them entirely and not lose a single game I cared about.
I am not going to pretend it is as tidy as one box under the telly used to be. It is not. But it is a lot cheaper than three overlapping subscriptions, and once you have the fixture map in your head at the start of the season, the Sunday scramble mostly goes away.