I’m not much older than @DaveBinM & I have my stuff separated, though not as much as you. I have Toon TV & Toon Movies as well as Anime TV & Anime Movies & also TV Shows & Movies. I then have a Holiday library which has collections with everything hidden so I have the Holidays with the month for sort order so they display calendar-wise. I then also have a hidden Christmas Episodes Halloween Episodes 4th of July Episodes Valentine's Day Episodes Thanksgiving Episodes etc, etc… With a single collection for the holiday in each so they’ll be included in the respective Holiday’s collection in the Holiday library. Because I want my holiday special episodes in the collection but Plex only allows a whole season to be put in a collection. I then just use Hardlinks of each file so they’ll be in both libraries & play positions will carry over between the two… So I guess maybe not less complicated than yours at all…
Personally the reason is more because it makes sense. If I want to watch a movie or show I generally want to watch something Anime OR something Live Action so why browse through a bunch of stuff I have to just skip past either way? If I know what I want then I know which library it’s going to be in. But the biggest thing is that the libraries look nicer that way. I mean I take the time to find or make holiday themed covers for the holiday episodes if I can since they have to sit in a sad folder with 1 or 2 episodes anyway, so the browsing experience never feels like a chore.
Talk about a 180
Personally I haven’t even seen this issue, maybe in part because I have often manually adjusted my Home Screen, but I can definitely see some benefits to having different Recent, On Deck, & Continue Watching. But only if I have the option of combining them or not. But I usually keep my library tabs set to Library, but have had occasions to switch to Recommended to get to those menus.
I think there’s more to it than just that. I know me personally I’d rather wait on a feature that I’m already waiting on than have a bad one implemented. Right now I don’t think the Multiple Cuts discussions has had any good suggestions on how it’d be implemented until recently when we’ve been brainstorming new suggestions. Because you could have a 12 year old suggestion to have Plex automatically bring you popcorn when your movie starts but if there isn’t a good way to make that happen why is that suggestion even there? I feel if a request has been around for a long time, especially with lots of votes, the reason it isn’t implemented has more to do with the how than the what.
I think part of that is because you need it to make the other work, so you have to test the pieces before they are put together. It’s like that dad who skips over steps when building something then gets mad when it doesn’t work. Some steps may seem silly, but they are there for a reason
