I doubt any other service will have an easier time with matching media.

The full lemmy exprience!

You could use hardlinks to link your files to your media library structure without touching the originally torrented files at all.

I mean, I get adding some extra cheese on top of the toppings … but never in my live have I heard of putting the toppings first.

I just like actually owning all my stuff and don’t want to deal with sites randomly shutting down, moving, having an incomplete or miss-organized library, bad quality, etc. My own collection certainly isn’t prefect but if there is issues I can fix them, it’s all in one place (no different sites for movies, tv shows, anime, music, etc) and it tracks all my watch-history which most free sites don’t. I can one-click download stuff to my laptop or phone for offline-watching (guess you can do that with yt-dlp for most sites, but again more effort)

Are you hosting arr stack/plex/jellyfin?

Yup.

How much is it utilized (in watch hours/week for example, mine was less than 2/week)?

I get about 3 days of watch-time between my 10ish active users per week.

Have you considered not using it?

Nope, I’m so done with the free streaming site whack-a-mole, not going back.