Honestly it was a coin flip at the time between Jellyfin and Emby.

I liked how I could change the media folder icons to my own custom ones and that was enough to experiment with Emby.

Did the usual spouse test, nobody really noticed a difference so stuck with it.

Hetzner storage boxes are also incredibly inexpensive, you can mount them on a smaller VPS in another datacenter (Scaleway for example) and still run Plex if you really need to.

I just switched to Emby with zero regrets