Once upon a time, Plex started as a fork of XBMC/Kodi.
I'm still using Kodi. It still does everything I need it to do, user complaints about "dated UI" be damned.
About the only thing I wish it shipped was a built-in renamer utility to help organize the media to the naming scheme that Kodi expects in order to scrape metadata properly. Most of the leading third-party utilities for this are proprietary subscription apps, which is a huge shame when the core product is FLOSS.
Ironically (or fittingly) given that origin, the Xbox version of the Plex app may be the best one to use now because it's been abandoned and was never updated to the terrible redesign.
Kodi front end - emby back end. Best of both.