Plex laid off the whole player team

@drzoidberg33 I think it would be really beneficial for the plex team to put out a blog post or have a fireside chat about the current state of clients across the board. The user base on every major client has seen an experience that they were widely enthusiastic about and willing to promote to friends and family, crash and burn on all the New Experience clients with little feedback or comment from Plex itself on the matter.

I think we all understand that Plex needs to have alternative sources of revenue, but that should not have come at the sacrifice of the basic functionality of the core of the app, especially when there is a new vibe coded community app being released every other day that is handling media playback better than the first party new experience apps.

This is a safety issue for users as they run to these unvetted vibe coded apps looking for a cheap solution to a problem that shouldn’t exist.

The team has burned a lot of good will these last few months, and a bit of a mea culpa could go a long way to smoothing that over.