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I use both, I have had my plex running since the lifetime pass could be had for 40 bucks on sale.
I still use plex because it Just Works™️ for my family members. But, the day when they suddenly unprompted blasted all family (and me) with emails about what everyone else watched this week, I decided I would never use it again myself. I also told my family that the next time that stupid ass plex database gets corrupted, I'm not restoring it and they'll have to join me on jellyfin.
I started using Jellyfin for myself, and I absolutely love it. And settings up my own preferences for transcoding, and things like that giving me full control is fantastic. But jellyfin has issues for multi users imo, sure I can manually make accounts for people and all that. But just the idea of having to input a url for the server in an app is already way past the convenience threshold for a lot.
Also most of the exposed jellyfin endpoints are entirely unprotected, and there's no native MFA.
Authentik is your friend fam. Might take a minute or two to get it spun up the way you want, but then you can support using a single IdP (that you control) for all your hosted stuff (except Plex). If you want MFA you'll have to set it up differently than I, I just use an LDAP lookup but it works great.
I could do that, but going "hey make an account here on this thing that you have no clue what is that I host and then you can use that to log in to my media server" is still too weird and not normal for a normie.
I also think it's a complete nogo until jellyfin has native support for it.