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Lots of comments already telling you to stay home so I don’t think I need to. What I will say is if you don’t want to contribute to the growing number of variants, you’ll stay home. Variants largely arise from mutations in the virus during replication. Humans are virus-replication machines. If you’re infected you could be carrying a new variant right now and the only way to stop it is to let it die inside you. Your body’s immune system will already be in full swing and be in the best position to deal with it as opposed to an uninfected person.
Don’t contribute to the endemicity of COVID.
I came to this sentiment a few years ago when I first switched over to Jellyfin and was figuring out metadata providers and investigating the -arr services.
To be fair to Sonarr, I never found any kind of communication where they explicitly said “TMDB will never be supported” so I shouldn’t have said so explicitly “Sonarr has made it clear”, but a lot of the responses to support about TMDB that I came across had included suggestions like “stop using Sonarr”, “Sonarr is free so enjoy what you’re getting”, and “if you want a feature, add it yourself”. These answers, while technically valid, had a pretty stubborn tone, at least to me.
Also, while the people providing these kinds of answer obviously don’t necessarily represent Sonarr as a whole, they did claim to be active supporters, and I found enough of them at the time that it soured my impression of Sonarr.
I think I may have found a few of them from back then:
https://www.reddit.com/r/sonarr/comments/nqe05n/any_way_around_tvdb/
https://www.reddit.com/r/sonarr/comments/l046yc/trakt_is_switching_to_tmdb_as_the_primary_data/
https://www.reddit.com/r/sonarr/comments/ljapuq/pulling_shows_from_tmdb/
https://www.reddit.com/r/sonarr/comments/pmgmbo/will_sonarr_switch_to_or_at_least_provide_an/
https://forums.sonarr.tv/t/tmdb-for-tv-show-information/3624
Edit: As for why they won’t support TMDB, some of their apparent reasons are discussing in the above posts, but I don’t know how relevant or valid they are today, or even if they were back then.