

I just recently made the change from Plex to Jellyfin. Plex definitely has the better UX experience, but Jellyfin has better capabilities. The thing that finally got me to switch was Plex refused to play 4k HDR with subtitles, but Jellyfin handled it no problem.
Depends on your use case. If you’re just looking to expose services and are ok having them publicly accessible, there’s Cloudflare Tunnel, or you can run WireGuard on a cheap VPS