We’ve heard it all before: “HBO Max has the best back-end infrastructure in the world,” “This is the most robust platform on the planet” – or words to that effect. As we sat down to listen to WarnerMedia’s EVP of Global D2C Engineering, Operations and Program Management, Jason Press, preach similar sentiments during the virtual Streaming Media Connect webinar series this week, our eyes rolled, again. In the process, a Faultline headline from July 2021 flashed before our eyes – ‘HBO Max QoE is on a different planet of incompetency.’ This damning throwdown came following an influx of subscriber complaints for HBO Max, chiefly related to video streaming issues, as the AT&T-owned platform was at the time gaining an infamous…