Arrested Development Season 4 Extended

According to an article on SreenRant, a website giving movie and T.V. information, the fourth season of Arrested Development was extended to include 5 more episodes than originally planned.  This was due to an excess of footage being shot and new ideas for story lines that would take longer than 10 seasons to portray.

The interesting part about this is all of the episodes in the season will be released all at once on Netflix.  This seems pretty easy to add more episodes than previously intended since there is no T.V. schedule that needs to be followed.  If the new season of Arrested Development was shown on T.V., it would be much more difficult, or even impossible to extend the season.

Would it be much simpler for all episode-based programs to start becoming a part of Netflix or similar website.  It would allow greater creativity for the team making the show as they could increase or decrease the length of the season at any time.  Just as Arrested Development did, more story lines could be added to make it even more interesting and appealing to viewers.

ScreenRant Article:
http://screenrant.com/arrested-development-season-4-more-episodes/