I personally prefer to watch most things with subtitles. I'm usually extremely conscious of how much noise I'm making in the house, and I rarely ever want to watch something at cinema volumes. Good quality subtitles rarely ever feel intrusive, but I really wish there was a better distinction between subtitling and closed-captioning.

Most modern streaming platforms seem to only offer one accessibility-focused option that combines both, and I find it hugely irritating to see text on-screen like "[SOMBRE MUSIC PLAYS]" or "[CROWD MURMURING]".

I'd rather have close captioning than nothing at all.

There's many Amazon Prime movies I've quit because of a sentence I could not hear very well and they didn't come with close captioning. I hate that so much these days.

My pirate setup at least comes with auto-synced subs for everything I watch.

How do you auto sync the subtitles?

I use https://github.com/morpheus65535/bazarr which comes with https://github.com/smacke/ffsubsync.