Noticed one thing here, guys… Most of those that think us “power users” are whining in this thread are either new in the last year users, or have under 500 posts to their name.
These are the guys that haven’t seen a lot of the issues most of the rest of us have been dealing with for quite a while now. So since they haven’t had the issues cropping up, they are taking Plex as it is. All of it’s shortcoming and great things combined. (Plex does have a lot of great things about it, no denying that at all. But it could have a lot MORE great things if the Team works on many of these Feature Requests.)
These guys aren’t likely to need Server Side Per User Speed Limits, as they may only have the immediate members of their households as their only shared users. And none of these users are likely to stream from outside the house. (Wait until the kids are teens and going over to friend’s houses and streaming, though.)
These are the folks that would never use Desktop Sync to put a couple of movies on a laptop so they can watch something in the air, and leave their servers set up and running at home for the family to enjoy while they are gone. (Or traveling with the kids in the back seat, etc…)
These guys probably don’t use Audio Books, so support for that hasn’t crossed their minds. The idea of driving in traffic and listening to a book on the road is one they haven’t wrapped their heads around. Forget about comic book or ebook support, too. That’s perhaps even more fringe, right?
They’re not worried their teen age daughter is streaming stuff after mom and dad went to bed. So historical tracking is wasteful to develop. And if they DO have Remote Access enabled, and someone has gotten access to their server, they don’t care. The friend from work sharing out his Plex ID to everyone at work isn’t an issue, is it?
Most of them probably have 200-300 movies and maybe 4 or 5 TV shows they store. So finding something with a working filtering system hasn’t crossed their minds. (Try this with 2000 movies and 100+ TV shows and see how difficult it can become.)
Quite a lot of them don’t understand what transcoding actually entails, so the idea of HW accelerated transcoding seems like it’s unnecessary. (But they likely still can’t figure out why some media buffers when they watch it.)
The idea of Collections in the scrolling mass of movies in a library hasn’t crossed their minds, because they may have just a few movies, so having the Harry Potters and the Star Wars as separate icons isn’t a big deal to them. Imagine trying to find one specific move in the Twilight series (which isn’t named Twilight:???) and trying to play it in the correct order. (Or Jurassic park trilogy? How about the James Bond movies?)
I wonder how quick any of them change their minds when they start to realize they need the features we’ve been fighting to get in the suite? Do you think any of them would come back and eat some crow on the forums? Yeah, probably not… 
Does anyone think they might come and THANK those of us fighting for these things, even if we don’t actually USE them? Yeah, probably not that either.
To be clear on this: I listed features above that I wouldn’t use, but listed them because they are active Feature Requests and each of them have followings on their own respective threads. If you can pick the ones I wouldn’t use, well points to you… (Most of you old timers here can probably guess on most of them, anyway.)
So remember… This thread has been about fighting for these Feature Requests, and not about our own individual pet requests. There are way too many things we need to be fighting for, that to pick one and run with it defeats the whole purpose. I know we’re never going to change @elan’s mind about this. At least not until the tide is overwhelmingly in our favor. That’s what I had hoped this thread would be about. @elan’s participation in it has just confirmed for a lot of us just how much of a waste of time this whole thing actually is, though. Feature Requests are just too boring!
