> It becomes much easier to work with when configured with Recyclarr

I tried it once, and it just polluted the profiles with dozens of Trash Guide profiles :)

So I went with Profilarr which has sensible setups like "2160p Quality" etc.

> One of the most valuable things for me is the ability to rank different aspects of releases across media types.

Oh, this is something I tried to setup as well, and failed. It doesn't help that IIRC languages are not properly indexed/set up in ^arrs if I remember. Like you have to set "language = 53" for English or something like that.

I think all this complexity is down to the fact that ^arr apps grew organically on top of other things that grew organically, so the data models are all screwed up, and no one has the time or knowledge to clean it up and make better.