You people do realize that you can use the Plex server without using the Plex apps right? I pretty much exclusively use Infuse to interface with my Plex server and have none of the issues I see mentioned here.

I’ve been running this for my whole family and friends for years at this point. Way better than any browser based solution.

Does porkbun not just have that?

Yes because it fragments development of an already not well supported platform

I’m trying my hardest to not assume it’s the classic “Java engineers are scared of other languages” meme

It literally is. The main maintainer didn’t want to learn Rust.