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Yeah, that's really overthinking things. I host my movies and shows, I watch them from wherever. I feel like I'm not going to spend more time analyzing it, because my usage of the app is literally finding my movie and watching it, or putting it on for my kids. If my junk email gets more junk emails, so be it. I personally lost the privacy battle a million years ago, although I guess I do my best by not having Facebook or Instagram or anything of that ilk. I do exist, and so I'm fucked anyway, but I'm not going to spend energy that somehow doesn't get me a meaningful return on that energy spent.
I appreciate you putting it this way. There IS a battle happening to be sure.
Unfortunately, it feels like the battle that's being fought is between former Plex users and current (continuing) Plex users. It's frustrating as a continuing Plex user to feel like we are making all of the Jellyfin users angry just by existing. Some of us feel like explaining why our choice is rational, but that is often met with more hostility.
My hope is that we all (as self-hosters) can recognize that we all have different priorities and those priorities will lead to different choices. It's not wrong to leave Plex for something else. It's also not wrong to keep using Plex if it suits your needs.
(to be clear, I'm not at all implying that you were being hostile. This is just a general impression I get from several self-hosting communities when it comes to Plex versus other options)
My sister refers to this phenomenon often; "making perfect the enemy of good". I'd like to see the same things as you, though it seems that infighting among the like-minded must be a common human psychological trait. That would explain the tons of barely differentiated Catholic denominations and the hundreds of Linux distributions.
It helps me to think of it in terms of academic debate. We may vigorously disagree on sometimes trivial points, but we continue to all advance in the same direction in spite of those disagreements.