I’m not forced to use any of those and when turned off, never came back on. This is a commonly mentioned con by jellyfin…proponents, but I fail to see how turning a setting off is more cumbersome than the jellyfin setup as a whole. My users and I are more than satisfied with plex and their updates

I mean, I don't disagree that those things are silly but I haven't had to keep turning them off. I turned them off once, years ago when they were introduced, and they have never come back. I don't find that to be so onerous that it has kept me from enjoying the software. I have my misgivings about the direction the company is going, but at least for now they haven't ruined the core use case so I'm content.

Sorry I wasn't clear I meant keep turning off as they add new dumb stuff. I agree once it's off it's off but I had that bollocks defaults to on.