Your experience echoes mine to a certain extent.
When searching for a media platform, I tried various ones including Kodi (and the various forks/environments like LibreElec et. al), Plex and others.
I also have a folder hierarchy which Kodi doesn't respect (very annoying) and played around with Plex as well.
However, I am unwilling to log in and share telemetry about my own personal library with Plex.
As such, I went with MythTV, which isn't as slick as Plex or Kodi, but does most of the job (that is, manage my local media library). It lacks in streaming options, including podcasts and the devs seem much more focused on the DVR than anything else.
That said, for what it does, MythTV is pretty good, but there's a lot it doesn't do.
When searching for a media platform, I tried various ones including Kodi (and the various forks/environments like LibreElec et. al), Plex and others.
I also have a folder hierarchy which Kodi doesn't respect (very annoying) and played around with Plex as well.
However, I am unwilling to log in and share telemetry about my own personal library with Plex.
As such, I went with MythTV, which isn't as slick as Plex or Kodi, but does most of the job (that is, manage my local media library). It lacks in streaming options, including podcasts and the devs seem much more focused on the DVR than anything else.
That said, for what it does, MythTV is pretty good, but there's a lot it doesn't do.