What makes you not recommend Jellyfin Connect? I've been on Connect ~1y now and I found it a smoother and hassle-free experience compared to Jellyfin Kodi (which I was on for ~1y prior to switching).

JC has less bells and whistles with library integration and metadata but I'm not missing anything, really.

I found the experience similar to what OP says about the app. Maybe it's better now, it's been a while.

Right! Yeah, I may just have been lucky in starting to use it when it had gotten stable.

I had frequent connectivity and syncing issues with the other one but for me Connect Just Works. YMMV of course :)

Kodi is awesome, but every time I try to use it on a set-top box-type thing, it promptly consumes the entire available storage. I'm going to have to concoct some type of just-in-time mini-library so that these things don't get overeager with posterization, indexing, artwork, etc., but still allow me to use them to watch things essentially on-demand. Sounds efforty so I just won't.

I'll check this out, thanks!