Paper wasps are okay, they just want to eat rotting wood to make their nests. Fuuuuuuck eastern yellowjackets though. I'm pretty sure those assholes sting you on sight because they enjoy it. They make me glad that we also have bald-faced hornets to keep them in check.
At this point if I were to switch from Plex I would go with Emby just because a bunch of sweaty nerds don't simp over it every time Plex comes up in the news.
This is the same business model that tech "startups" use, just at a vastly accelerated time table. Upend some existing market (in this case, several markets) by burning through cash at an unsustainable rate. Once your customers have been hooked, and/or the alternatives eliminated as competitors, you crank up the prices to try and make the business cashflow positive.
You could be right, it was so bad my brain treated it like trauma and blocked it out for my own protection.