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It was definitely worth it for the $40 I paid a long time ago. I used it a little longer than desired because Jellyfin's DVR support wasn't always there. It is now and i haven't used Plex in over a year.
IMHO, Jellyfin needs a bit better UI, but Plex is actively making theirs worse, so...
I think i paid $75 or $90 probably a decade ago or more now and think it was worth it, and still use it, but $750 is just nuts. At this price, they clearly don't want anyone actually buying it but without having to face the backlash of outright removing the option altogether. I would imagine one of their next steps will be to remove or restrict people like me who bought it long ago. We'll probably get locked to a specific version that comes out right before some major update that fixes long held issues that people have complained about for years.
I would switch to Jellyfin but Plex makes sharing secure and easy and it is full of great features for the price I paid long ago. I also have a lifetime pass with Emby that I bought during a dark period of Plex but they also went closed source (which spawned Jellyfin into existence) and always felt much less refined than Plex in most areas.
And that's how you get a major piracy community around your product.
I think you can setup Jellyfin for Kodi.
You can. It syncs the Jellyfin database into the Kodi one so you browse with Kodi but the content comes from Jellyfin. Works pretty great really.