

A lot of people here are vastly overestimating the grade level of material they read. Most newspapers write between a 6th and 8th grade level. NY Times is around 10.
Most politicians also use speeches targeting a 6-8th grade education, for the same reason. Trump speaks somewhere around grade 4.
Laws/bills targeting higher than that, particularly when placed on the ballot, are usually done so to gatekeep the general populace (other people have already posted examples). It’s rarely due to technical requirements.












There’s a race within “the scene”. The first group to release the content (meeting all of the technical requirements, lest they get “nuked” or “propered”) gets credits, while everyone else gets nothing. The Wikipedia page on “Warez scene” is a good place to start if you want more technical details.
That said, scene groups don’t release everything. Some shows just aren’t popular enough, or are unavailable to the various release groups. That’s where I think this show is. While scene releases don’t usually say their source, they do state the type, e.g. WEB (aka Web-DL). I suspect that the episodes get released on AMZN/DSNP/HULU/whatever at 5am ET, and that’s when a member of EDITH grabs it in 720p to release around 5:10. They might go back later to release the 1080p version, but it looks like in previous seasons they kept getting sniped.
TL;DR: I bet the streaming content becomes available right before the scene release, which is why it’s so consistent.