Those were different times.

They are not relevant anymore with current self hosting setups.

Better to use the underrepresented torrent clients. They have the least chance of enshittification.

looks at µTorrent

Feels like a convoluted way of using an external hard drive.

Well, you can’t blame developers to not cater to their 1% player base. Especially since that group usually have the most problems and requires more development time.