Nothing worth having ever is.

whoever told you that is your enemy

No… that would be somebody else.

TL;DR… Lowest common denominator stops people setting up tailscale or the like, along with sunken cost fallacy.

They have said some awful, totally not fact supported stuff in the past.

Like?

Oh, this is so true. I set it up and now can watch things anywhere. Even my kids who live 6 hours away can just jump on and watch that stuff. Jellyfin is what plex wanted to be, like 10+ years ago. I remember how stupid it was when they first started charging people to watch their own local media, it was funny at first because it was only on iphones that you had to pay. Then it was everywhere. They will continue to take features away until you pay.

Getting people to pay to watch their locally stored media?