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Tailscale isn't exactly free. It requires a lot more knowledge, configuration, maintenance, etc, than Plex alone.
Sure, many self-hosters have the ability to figure it out and the proper networking and/or server hardware to implement it. But many Plex users aren't really self-hosters in that sense. Hosting a local media server that deals with all of the networking stuff for you is much easier than maintaining a tailscale or similar setup on top of the media server stuff. I mean for me, if I hadn't gotten a lifetime Plex Pass early on for cheap, I probably would have put more effort into my Jellyfin setup. But Plex mostly just works and I have other bigger priorities. I hate the functionality they've removed that makes things more difficult than it should be, or I wouldn't be switching, but it's not all that bad. So if I didn't have the expertise and hardware already, I could see it being worth the money to stick with it.
Tailscale is as simplified as it gets and it doesn't require any knowledge, configuration or maintenance. The fact that you can use it for free makes me wary, but you can't deny how simple it is to use. Just log in with your account in all of the devices you want to access jellyfin on and voila. It's as if they were in the same lan.
I skipped tailscale, so feel free to ignore me, but Netbird has been excellent and has no limitations I'm aware of.
My problem in the first place is that due to my ISP 's limitations, I can't run wireguard. If I could run it, I would do that instead of using headscale.