I used Plex for years but ditched it when they got caught sending all your watch activity to their company for whatever. My privacy is worth the pain. I'm running Jellyfin, but it's not a smooth system at all.

I bought an XBOX One as opposed to a PS4 because I'd heard the Plex client was perfect on XBOX -- personally I like game consoles as media players because they play discs and I'd rather have an overpowered rather than underpowered machine.

I ditched Plex when they came out with a FAST [1] service which was thoroughly pizzled [2] for me. I switched to Jellyfin which I struggled with in so many ways, the terrible XBOX client which was a degraded version of the web client was the worse but Jellyfin's poor metadata handling was part of it.

Last summer I spent a lot of time in a room in our rental house where I tried (and failed) to gentle a feral cat and wound up watching a lot of Tubi and came to the conclusion that FAST wasn't so bad and gave Plex another chance when I rebuilt my home server and I can say I'm highly satisfied.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_ad-supported_streaming_te...

[2] https://scatter.wordpress.com/2018/03/13/thoroughly-pizzled-...