Just wanted to point this out. Since you seem to be under the impression that people who stop complaining have simply decided to simmer down instead of leaving.
People who leave don’t make waves. They don’t have to think about what made them leave anymore since they found a solution that works for them. It’s only those who are wanting to find reasons to stay that kick up all this dust. But once that apathy kicks in, you won’t hear a peep out of them. They only get replaced by the next wave of people who got burned past the breaking point. But they are rarely the same people.
Of course things will calm down eventually. Once all those who were enraged left they didn’t just ‘get used to it.’ They got on with their life with a new solution. People aren’t going to be spending years of their life coming back to fume again about a change they didn’t like.
I just took a few minutes to compile some people who complained about Plex and indicated that they were looking for another solution. Then never came back to post again. Are they still here, did they stick with Plex? Well, that’s up in the air. But on the surface it doesn’t appear that they ever came back to complain about future problems either.
So no, I don’t agree that it’s faux outrage. It’s people drawing a line in the sand, stating that they are unhappy, and leaving when it’s obvious the product they wanted, and the product being sold had split off irreconcilably.
To get it started here’s one from 6 years ago where you yourself told a user to get over a new change or leave. And that thread was the last one the OP posted in.
Here’s another one where you invited a user to shut up and leave in a response. The person you replied to only made a post about switching to emby afterward and never came back. The OP to that thread also never returned.
And here’s the other ones I found about people who just got upset and seemed to go with another solution.
