Same old, same old?
After more than thirty years of flying (and therefore buying magazines), I am almost bored with what is contained now (it sort of repeats e.g. how many articles have you read about flying Crazy Horse P51 in Florida? I think I actually wrote the first for a short-lived magazine called Pilots International). And then how a PA28 navigated around Europe and managed to find way home to somewhere in Southeast England?
Despite all that, I still buy them because I feel the need to keep up to date - I'm thinking legislation particularly. And a physical magazine still has more appeal than anything online. Just because it was my original subscription, I still favour Pilot, but they have given up on free landings recently, and Flyer still has some good ones. So you pays your money and takes your choice, but I always go for discounted subscription rates which can be really cheap if you search hard and time it right. Would not pay full price in the newsagent!