ARD and ZDF: Back to the Middle Ages?

ARD and ZDF: Back to the Middle Ages? - because it is slowly becoming apparent that the ridiculous business models of private broadcasters do not work, one draws the logical conclusion in Germany and destroys the added value created by fees. Because it is known to be much better when advertising junk and trash television is subsidized (because that's what it is - just banal indirect subsidization). One could of course also take a look at what the BBC does, for example, and orient oneself accordingly, and demand from public broadcasting (and exert pressure through the control bodies) to produce meaningful content from the fees, which might then be published under meaningful licenses (have you heard of CC?) and directly benefit the citizens (for whom the state is actually supposed to be there, not for the ridiculous scammers from the private broadcasting corner). But that would be a sensible approach. And presumably fewer bribes would be paid or something like that ...