The increase in streaming services has already caused an increase in piracy. This assumption ERA has that people will just continue to pay no matter how much a company raises prices or takes away functionalities is wild, frankly.
That's... literally not what the article you linked to says.
It says that there was an increase in piracy at the start of the pandemic because people were sat at home with nothing to do, and there have been increases in piracy for film title that have been made available for early window VOD or day and date SVOD because it was possible to obtain good UHD quality rips.
It doesn't actually say that there was any major increase in piracy for SVOD titles, nor that rates haven't dropped back down again as the number of early window releases drops, and it's notable that the services with strong DRM or those with theatrical exclusivity aren't really suffering any increase at all...