Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

Plex is superior because of one app: Plexamp

Why is the hype for kodi? Its just a (not good) media player

PS5 Client. Deal maker in my case.

I've been using Kodi (LibreELEC) on an RPi as a media center for the tv. It is extensible with IPTV etc which makes it great as a standalone device.

For myself I'm using Jellyfin on multiple devices without having to manage metadata and configuration seperately. It's all on my homeserver.

tl;dr
Different use cases.

Kodi with trakt for me

I wanted subtitles on Chromecast and Plex was the only thing that could do it without burning them in (at the time, maybe jellyfish can do this now)

Imma be a weirdo here: I use Emby.

I mean... emby or jellyfin would be a better replacement for Plex.

But why not those? I bought a lifetime Plex Pass for $30 or something ages ago when the competition was garbage, so I already have a smoothly working setup for Plex. No reason to force my kids, their grandparents, etc, to a new interface for very little upside. Plex just works. I have tried the others and they're okay, but nothing compelling enough to force the change.

I just setup a htpc and am using kodi for client of jellyfin, because for some reason the jellyfin desktop app will not register any controller inputs and I haven't found a remote control solution that works.

Used Kodi for a long time (even had an XBMC) and switched when it became more of a chore keeping Kodi updated across multiple devices than it was worth - along with wanting to play easier across more devices.

It's unfortunate, but just the UI customization that I loved Kodi for couldn't keep me on it over the lack of reasonable server/client architecture, minimal headless scraper capability (you can do it, but it sucks), and the general attitude of the forums getting very...angry/pissy?