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After 22 hours and 291 comments, I can see that 80% is sunk cost, 15% never bothered to look at their Jellyfin client's settings, and the rest use a device that doesn't have a client for Jellyfin yet.
Using a product that you paid for long ago that still works just fine doesn't really fit the bill of the "sunk cost fallacy."
I didn't say fallacy. I said sunk cost. I'm not judging.
Securely sharing is simpler on Plex. I can invite anyone with just an email and they have near instant access to an HTTPS-encrypted service. I don't have to deal with setting up a VPN, reverse proxy or ACLs (in the case of something like Tailscale).
If your device doesn’t have a client it probably has a kodi port. Jellyfin libraries can be imported in kodi with plugins (and plex and emby for that matter). Then you get the benefits of kodi (better skin support, more robust plugins, better subtitle rendering, etc) with the centralized metadata administration of Jellyfin and retain the option to use Jellyfin clients on devices with locked ecosystems (eg ios) or where you don’t feel like setting up kodi