And that’s what I was afraid of and the same could very well apply to the 98% who never realized that there is an excellent Subtitle agent already available right in the Plugins directory, forget about all the 3rd party ones. The subtitle feature from Plex is definitely nice but not groundbreaking for someone already using a plugin. An FYI, I have had many conversations with a lot of developers (Kodi and other platforms around 2013/2014) and most didn’t even realize Plex had plugins because for all these years they were called “Channels”.
Sad to see you say that. But the whole idea of plugins should be to extend the capabilities of a platform (not limit it but make it limitless). If you have a framework that allows doing more than the intended purposes more kudos to developers in my opinion. Plugins & Tools like Sub-Zero, SS-Plex, Trackt, WebTools, Tautulli and many more all came into existence in such a way and have enormously extended the Plex experience. I do hope if Plugins 2.0 ever came into existence they don’t get limited.
Hate to say, but its a difficult ask. Even if Plex is willing iOS, Roku, Samsung etc. might not be willing to. Also, unless you stop updating your PMS, plugin framework will eventually be removed from PMS. The only long terms solution is to make a VM or separate installation, install a PMS that continues to support Plugins and grab one of the cheap Android box or FireStick and install the last version of the Plex apk that continues to support Plugins.
