The most annoying thing is that they take something that has been the same way for years and working fine and then change it with little to no notice unless you just spend your life on the forums.
At a minimum if they are going to do something like this they should at least give you the option to change it back to the way it was by going into the Settings and having a “Sort By…” dropdown or something. Ideally if they are going to change it, they should leave it as is for existing installs and add the setting so people can change it to the new sorting format if they want. If they want to make that the default on new server installs going forward that’s fine (as long as you can change it back on those as well with a setting).
Doing stuff like this it what keeps pissing off customers.
This was even more exacerbated because they had this stupid bug and so the in-between stage was just chaotically sorted, which confused people even more. And then when it was “fixed” it was different than from before the bug.
Also, I don’t see how Collections solves this at all. They are useful, but not as replacements for entire libraries. Also having to manually go find and/or make posters for them goes against the spirit of the self-contained nature of Plex and having it grab metadata for you, in my opinion.
