Doesn’t it actually require you to sign up to an account on some app hosting platform, rather than self host it?

Yayyy unsecured connections for logins.

Avoid detracting from the hosts bandwidth quota.

Sure! There’s zero likelihood of this ever happening, but in the weird universe where it does you can probably sue them for coming around and shaving your dog too.

Still waiting on rpmfusion to update. I wonder how long I’ll have to wait

Lacking a centralised server that even self-hosted instances must use to validate admins and will render your instance inaccessible if Plex’s server goes down again?

I’m fine with that.