So you're saying that the real web3 was... the friends we made along the way?

I would like to second the issues with Plex. I understand their desire to try and mainstream themselves and have a non-sketchy reason for people to still install them, but at some point it became too much of a mess and I went back to Kodi, which is great but not applicable for your use case

Ditto. I used to use BaconReader a million years ago, but for the most part I just use my mobile browser if I'm on my phone. But them doing this to 3PA is a red flag, a big giant one, that either they're looking at Twitter and going "wow that's working great, definitely not a huge catastrophic trash fire" or at least going "that's a trash fire alright, but one I'm willing to live with if it means more money." Time to get out.