Yep - that pretty much explains it.
‘Plex Veteran Users’ already know if there’s a poor decision to be made in design, Plex has absolutely made it and forced it on hapless users.
I have no illusions, however, that one day soon, this will just be another thing ‘Volunteer Support’ has to tell hapless users how to turn off, or deal with… like:
The LMA Hack
The Plex Dance
and
The ‘Everything Else you don’t need, or want’.
the manufacturer of the plex client is plex.
That’s right, they sent you the movies in the mail. You could burn copies and do the same to your less tech savvy server users. 
This^^^
To clear up a few things:
Limit Remote Bitrate affects each individual stream as the maximum it can use, and is included in deciding how to play media (Direct Play, Direct Stream or Transcode).
Internet upload speed sets your maximum upload speed (of which Plex will only use 80%, so as to not severely impact other things on the connection).
Auto adjust would only kick in if the decision has already been made to transcode. If it’ll Direct Play within the bandwidth limits a server owner has selected, then it’ll just direct play. If it has to transcode, then it can adjust the quality based on the internet connection, or how many users are currently streaming, to fairly share the bandwidth.
2Mbps is the default remote quality on clients, and Auto Adjust is defaulted to off as of writing.
Auto Adjust does that kind of Netflix magic where it sees what the connection between client and server is like (completely securely, between that client and server and nothing else), and adjusts the quality of the transcode dynamically between 0.7Mbps and 20Mbps, including both decreasing and increasing quality.
Thanks for clarifying that!
So do you have any plans to turn on auto quality as a default setting in the near future?
You know… Call Ripley, but there it is…
Look up two posts - The “Plex Employee” tag is probably legitimate. 
Yea, my crack team of (Crack) investigators have stopped working the case…lol
I’m not personally aware of any current plans to enable it by default, but that may change at some point in the future. 
To also clarify, Emby’s auto quality selects one quality at the start of playback, and does not change. The one in Plex adjusts dynamically during playback between 0.7Mbps and 20Mbps.
They might have a similar name, but they’re very different in what they do.
Thanks, I wasn’t aware of that. However, for my use case this is a perfectly viable solution, as my user’s connections are typically stable enough and I don’t believe any of them is streaming on mobile network (Mobile data plans are expensive in my country).
Bingo. I like defaults that work best for most people, and for me auto would work best for most who connect to my plex server.
What are you going on about?
You need to go to Spec Savers…
Bingo - the employee just said there are no plans to make it the default.
Bingo - great news.
Bingo Fuel - Return to Base.
I have a name, you know 
And Good afternoon to you Dave 
Still morning here on Australia’s eastern coast 
Oh, I surmised it was California. So good morning Fellow Australian hope your not amongst the smoke and fire.
Our staff are all over the world, including a few Australians. 
We’re all clear from the fires, hope you and your family are safe too!
