Doesn’t it actually require you to sign up to an account on some app hosting platform, rather than self host it?

Yayyy unsecured connections for logins.

Avoid detracting from the hosts bandwidth quota.

Sure! There’s zero likelihood of this ever happening, but in the weird universe where it does you can probably sue them for coming around and shaving your dog too.

Still waiting on rpmfusion to update. I wonder how long I’ll have to wait

Lacking a centralised server that even self-hosted instances must use to validate admins and will render your instance inaccessible if Plex’s server goes down again?

I’m fine with that.

Because I’m not a whiney child having a tantrum, with no awareness of the practicalities of the world, trying to justify misdirected rage.

I’m not going to blame company A for something that was done by company B.

You do you, though.

Again, this was not Arrowheads choice. It’s forced on them by Sony.

Boycotting the game would hurt Arrowhead far more than Sony, and they were forced to do this. Like beating a dog because the owner upset you.