I've finally switched to Jellyfin, even though I have a lifetime Plex pass. It isn't really a downgrade. I think I ran into more bugs on Plex. Using Jellyfin is like switching from Windows to Linux, on a smaller scale. Plex was always trying to sell you something, get you to use the other features, etc, whereas Jellyfin just gets out of my way and lets me watch media.

it just means the costs to you are less visible, you are still the product you have paid to pretend that you are not the product.

Sure but Jellyfin just works too so thats cool, it took me like 5mn to switch our devices and the fact I could stream anything instantly on any of them without warning or whatever was immediately a breath of fresh air

But when you want to give access to others outside of your network they need to subscribe to a plan to get a watch pass. That's the main issue a lot of people are facing.